Intel Pentium G4560 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Compare Intel Pentium G Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 85.00
$ 184.95 significantly less expensive
$ 269.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1563 points
3% slightly better overall score
1506 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2914 points
5% slightly better gaming score
2767 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1189 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1142 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1103 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.56 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
18.13 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1455 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1133 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

686 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
397 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1450 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1064 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

712 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
379 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
75% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
12 MiB
2299% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

794th of 1,089
806th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium G Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Pentium G4560 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4560 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4560 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4560 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. A Pentium G4560 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4560

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. Indeed, the Pentium G4560 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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