Intel Core i3-4130 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

Core i3-4130 vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4130 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9505. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9505 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4130. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4130. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9505 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130

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. Indeed, the Core i3-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.