Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs AMD FX-9800P

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

784 points

2% slightly better overall score

763 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1436 points

0.28% slightly better gaming score

1432 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

602 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

581 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

580 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

559 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

7.45 points

17.61 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1016 points

1113 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

318 points

514 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

825 points

1121 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

292 points

495 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.33 GHz

2.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,009th of 1,089

1,014th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

Core 2 Quad Q8200 vs FX-9800P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q8200 performs better than the FX-9800P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9800P in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9800P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q8200. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core 2 Quad Q8200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.