Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1506 points

2% slightly better overall score

1467 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2767 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1150 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1109 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1103 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1061 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.13 points

19.01 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1133 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1071 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

397 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

378 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points

1100 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

379 points

391 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

Identical

3.00 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

816th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 August

2007 November

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Xeon E5-450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 is faster than the Xeon E5-450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-450 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core 2 Quad Q9650 and Xeon E5-450 have the same clock speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical 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.