AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 640 is faster 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 Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9550. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X4 640

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 Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.