AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

FX-6100 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6100 beats the Core 2 Quad Q9650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6100 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6100 has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the FX-6100

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 FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.