Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Intel Xeon E5-440

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1506 points

4% slightly better overall score

1441 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2767 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1150 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1102 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1103 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1058 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.13 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

11.40 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1022 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

379 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

361 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

3.00 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

806th of 1,089

824th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

2008 February

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Xeon E5-440 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 beats the Xeon E5-440 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-440 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.