Intel Core i9-10900KF vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 439.00
$ 269.95
$ 169.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8768 points
482% significantly better overall score
1506 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9745 points
252% significantly better gaming score
2767 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8418 points
632% significantly better multitasking score
1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8304 points
652% significantly better heavy workload score
1103 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.11 points
1147% significantly higher Blender score
18.13 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9629 points
749% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1133 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1774 points
346% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
397 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9168 points
761% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1064 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points
370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
379 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
150% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
400% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
95 W
31% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
12 MiB
380% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

117th of 1,089
806th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-10900KF vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900KF is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900KF has significantly more cores than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. Indeed, the Core i9-10900KF has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core 2 Quad Q9650. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The Core 2 Quad Q9650 outputs less heat than Core i9-10900KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900KF

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 i9-10900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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