Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 performs better than the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 Ryzen 3 PRO 2100GE

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.