Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 B50 performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9650 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 B50

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.