Intel Core i5-4210M vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

Core i5-4210M vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 is faster than the Core i5-4210M. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4210M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M. A Core i5-4210M 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 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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.