Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Athlon X4 950 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 950 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500. 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. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 950

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.