AMD Ryzen 3 3300U vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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

$ 1443.00
$ 269.95
$ 1173.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points
49% significantly better overall score
1506 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4104 points
48% significantly better gaming score
2767 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1718 points
49% significantly better multitasking score
1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1647 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score
1103 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.71 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
18.13 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.00 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

672nd of 1,089
806th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2008 August

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 3 3300U vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 3300U performs better 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U. A Ryzen 3 3300U 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. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3300U

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 3 3300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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