AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9505

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 49.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points
1376 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points
0.24% slightly better gaming score
2525 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points
1053 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points
1011 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points
1262 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
384 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1051 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
360 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

3.8 GHz
34% slightly higher clock speed
2.83 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
Identical
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089
846th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-4300 vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4300

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 FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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