Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs Athlon X4 750K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 beats the Athlon X4 750K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 750K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 750K. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 750K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 750K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9550. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 750K

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 Q9550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.