Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 vs Intel N100

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1227 points

1289 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2282 points

2647 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

933 points

0.54% slightly better multitasking score

928 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

886 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.84 points

33.61 points

126% significantly higher Blender 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

2.66 GHz

232% significantly higher clock speed

0.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

894th of 1,089

873rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

Core 2 Quad Q9400 vs N100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 performs better than the N100. Despite this, the N100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the N100. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has more L2 cache than the N100

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.