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. 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.