Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs AMD PRO A8-8670E

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1362 points
1388 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2497 points
2604 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1042 points
1054 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1000 points
1011 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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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
1% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 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

857th of 1,099
848th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs PRO A8-8670E comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the PRO A8-8670E 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.

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 Q9550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the PRO A8-8670E. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache than the PRO A8-8670E

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.

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