AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

FX-6300 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-6300 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.

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-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. 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 Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-6300

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-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.