Intel Xeon X5470 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Xeon X5470 vs Core 2 Quad Q9650 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5470 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.

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 Xeon X5470 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9650. The Core 2 Quad Q9650 outputs less heat than Xeon X5470 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 Xeon X5470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.