AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 34.92 significantly less expensive

$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

5% slightly better overall score

1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

8% slightly better gaming score

2497 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1042 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1000 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

19.72 points

0.66% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

362 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1048 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

850th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A8-9600 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-9600 performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A A8-9600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache than the A8-9600

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.