Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs AMD FX-9800P

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs FX-9800P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8500 beats the FX-9800P in overall performance. 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 E8500. Indeed, the FX-9800P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core 2 Duo E8500. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9800P. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 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 E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.