Intel Core i3-4330 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Core i3-4330 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 beats the Core i3-4330 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4330 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4330 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4330 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9650. A Core i3-4330 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-4330 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.