Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Core 2 Quad Q8200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8500 beats the Core 2 Quad Q8200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q8200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q8200 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 Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q8200. A Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q8200 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 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. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.