Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 49.95
$ 8.07 slightly less expensive
$ 58.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1376 points
0.22% slightly better overall score
1373 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2525 points
0.80% slightly better gaming score
2505 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1053 points
1054 points
0.09% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1011 points
Identical
1011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1262 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1135 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

384 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
350 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1051 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
854 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

360 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
292 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.83 GHz
2.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

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

846th of 1,089
847th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
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Core 2 Quad Q9505 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X4 635

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 Q9505 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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