AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 269.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
554% significantly better overall score
1506 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
258% significantly better gaming score
2767 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
755% significantly better multitasking score
1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
791% significantly better heavy workload score
1103 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
1632% significantly higher Blender score
18.13 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points
938% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1133 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points
439% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
397 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
1008% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1064 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
480% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
379 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
499% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
95 W
10% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
12 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
806th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2008 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9650 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The Core 2 Quad Q9650 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9650 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X

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 Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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