Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Core i7-950 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. The Core 2 Quad Q9550 outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a slightly 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.