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Front view of Intel Core2 Quad Q9550

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Intel Core2 Quad Q9550

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Benchmarks Real world tests of Core2 Quad Q9550 vs Athlon X4 750k

GeekBench 3 (Multi-core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

GeekBench 3 (Single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

GeekBench 3 (AES single core) Data courtesy Primate Labs

Core2 Quad Q9550
121,500 MB/s
Athlon X4 750k
2,240,000 MB/s

GeekBench (32-bit) Data courtesy Primate Labs

GeekBench

3D Mark 11 (Physics)

PassMark Data courtesy Passmark

PassMark (Single Core)

Specifications Full list of technical specs

summary

Core2 Quad Q9550  vs
Athlon X4 750k 
Clock speed 2.83 GHz 3.4 GHz
Cores Quad core Quad core

features

Has a NX bit Yes Yes
Has virtualization support Yes Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE4a
AVX 1.1
SSE2
F16C
MMX
SSE4
XOP
SSE3
EM64T
SSE
CLMUL
AMD64
SSE4.1
FMA4
SSE4.2
CVT16
AMD-V
Supplemental SSE3
AES
Supports dynamic frequency scaling Yes Yes

power consumption

TDP 95W 100W
Annual home energy cost 22.89 $/year 24.09 $/year
Annual commercial energy cost 83.22 $/year 87.6 $/year
Performance per watt 1.51 pt/W 8.84 pt/W
Typical power consumption 77.19W 81.25W

details

Core2 Quad Q9550  vs
Athlon X4 750k 
Architecture x86-64 x86-64
Threads 4 4
L2 cache 12 MB 4 MB
L2 cache per core 3 MB/core 1 MB/core
Manufacture process 45 nm 32 nm
Transistor count 820,000,000 1,303,000,000
Max CPUs 1 1
Voltage range 0.85 - 1.36V 0.82 - 1.48V

overclocking

Overclock popularity 127 0
Overclocked clock speed 3.99 GHz 4.46 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Water) 4.03 GHz 5.01 GHz
Overclocked clock speed (Air) 3.99 GHz 4.46 GHz

integrated graphics

GPU None None
Label N/A N/A
Latest DirectX N/A N/A
Number of displays supported N/A N/A
GPU clock speed N/A N/A
Turbo clock speed N/A N/A
3DMark06 N/A N/A
Intel Core2 Quad Q9550
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