Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q6600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600. The Core 2 Quad Q9650 outputs less heat than Core 2 Quad Q6600 thanks to a slightly 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 Quad Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 2 Quad Q6600

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 Quad Q6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.