AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Compare AMD Athlon Desktop 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 69.99
$ 199.96 significantly less expensive
$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1477 points
1506 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2742 points
2767 points
0.91% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1135 points
1150 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1095 points
1103 points
0.73% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.38 points
73% significantly higher Blender score
18.13 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1966 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1133 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

957 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
397 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1970 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1064 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

956 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
379 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
171% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
12 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

813th of 1,089
806th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Athlon Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2008 August

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Athlon 3000G vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon 3000G is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9650 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9650. A Athlon 3000G CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9650 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 Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G

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. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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