Intel Core i5-4210H vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1272 points
1362 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2473 points
2497 points
0.97% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

954 points
1042 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

916 points
1000 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1741 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1084 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

885 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
362 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1912 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1048 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1007 points
171% significantly 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

2.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W
102% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

877th of 1,089
850th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-4210H vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4210H is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4210H. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4210H. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4210H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A Core i5-4210H CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 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 i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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