Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs AMD Athlon II X2 220

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Athlon II X2 220 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 is faster than the Athlon II X2 220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X2 220 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X2 220. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon II X2 220. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X2 220. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X2 220. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X2 220

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 Q9650 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.