Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505 vs AMD FX-870K

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1376 points
1430 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2525 points
2728 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1053 points
1078 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1011 points
1035 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.83 GHz
3.6 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

846th of 1,089
830th 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 FX-870K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-870K beats the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores than the FX-870K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-870K. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-870K

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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