Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 945

Price

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$ 48.02

Identical

$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1362 points

1445 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2497 points

2654 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1042 points

1105 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1000 points

1061 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.72 points

19.89 points

0.87% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1084 points

1342 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

362 points

398 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1048 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1037 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

371 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

342 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.83 GHz

3 GHz

6% 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

850th of 1,089

822nd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.