AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

Athlon X4 760K vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 760K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505

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.