AMD FX-9830P vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1362 points

Identical

1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2574 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2497 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

1042 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

990 points

1000 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1621 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

636 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

362 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1465 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1048 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

613 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

2.83 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

849th of 1,089

850th of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

FX-9830P vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 is faster than the FX-9830P. Despite this, the FX-9830P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has more L2 cache than the FX-9830P

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. For instance, the FX-9830P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.