Intel Pentium G3220 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Pentium G3220 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 is faster than the Pentium G3220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3220 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G3220. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G3220. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3220. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G3220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A Pentium G3220 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Pentium G3220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.