Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 vs AMD FX-9830P

Core 2 Quad Q9400 vs FX-9830P comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9830P beats the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9400 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 FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9400. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-9830P

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 Q9400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.