Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1227 points
0.66% slightly better overall score
1219 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2282 points
2398 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

933 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
908 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
872 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
33% slightly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
33% slightly more threads
3

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz
3.2 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

901st of 1,098
903rd of 1,098

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August
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