Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

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Price

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$ 51.80
$ 218.15 significantly less expensive
$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

996 points
1506 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2013 points
2767 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

734 points
1150 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

704 points
1103 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.44 points
18.13 points
45% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points
1133 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

412 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
397 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

764 points
1064 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

367 points
379 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.93 GHz
3.00 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W
30% slightly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

970th of 1,114
822nd of 1,114

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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