Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Intel Xeon L5520

Core 2 Quad Q9650 vs Xeon L5520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 is faster than the Xeon L5520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon L5520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon L5520 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. The Xeon L5520 outputs less heat than Core 2 Quad Q9650 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon L5520

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.