AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

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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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 221.93 significantly less expensive

$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1463 points

1506 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2727 points

2767 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1106 points

1150 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points

1103 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.73 points

18.13 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points

1133 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

308 points

397 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

948 points

1064 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

313 points

379 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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 GHz

3.00 GHz

0.10% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

12 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

819th of 1,089

806th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 640. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.