AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1399 points
78% significantly better overall score
784 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2628 points
83% significantly better gaming score
1436 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1061 points
76% significantly better multitasking score
602 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1018 points
75% significantly better heavy workload score
580 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.35 points
159% significantly higher Blender score
7.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1399 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1016 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

502 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
318 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1117 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
825 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 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

3.8 GHz
62% significantly higher clock speed
2.33 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB
1113% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

840th of 1,089
1,009th 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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2008 August

Athlon X4 760K vs Core 2 Quad Q8200 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 760K is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q8200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q8200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 760K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 760K. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q8200. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Core 2 Quad Q8200

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. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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