Intel Core i3-2130 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

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Price

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$ 47.09
$ 0.93 slightly less expensive
$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1392 points
2% slightly better overall score
1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2662 points
6% slightly better gaming score
2497 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
0.67% slightly better multitasking score
1042 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
0.70% slightly better heavy workload score
1000 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.70 points
19.72 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1298 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1084 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

574 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
362 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1048 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

521 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

858th of 1,114
869th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August
2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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