Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 vs AMD FX-9800P

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

818 points
7% slightly better overall score
763 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1767 points
23% slightly better gaming score
1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

586 points
0.86% slightly better multitasking score
581 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

563 points
0.72% slightly better heavy workload score
559 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.18 points
17.61 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

622 points
1113 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points
514 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

615 points
1121 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

373 points
495 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

999th of 1,089
1,014th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Core 2 Duo E8400 vs FX-9800P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8400 is faster than the FX-9800P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9800P has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Indeed, the FX-9800P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E8400. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-9800P. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-9800P

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. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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