AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 48.02
$ 1.93 slightly less expensive
$ 49.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1463 points
6% slightly better overall score
1376 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2727 points
8% slightly better gaming score
2525 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1106 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
1053 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score
1011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points
1262 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

308 points
384 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

948 points
1051 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

313 points
360 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
2.83 GHz

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

819th of 1,089
846th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2009 August

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9505. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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