Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 11.99
$ 183.31 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

725 points
8823 points
1116% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1576 points
12429 points
688% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

518 points
7679 points
1382% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

497 points
7421 points
1393% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

524 points
14957 points
2754% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

315 points
3338 points
959% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
12
499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz
3.9 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,059th of 1,126
123rd of 1,126

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core 2 Duo E8200 vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8200 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8200 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8200. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8200. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 Core 2 Duo E8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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