Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 vs AMD A9-9425. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Family
  Intel Core2 Duo AMD A
• Generation
  2 4
• CPU group
  Intel Core 2 Quad AMD A9-9000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.50 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge)
• GPU frequency
  0.85 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  3
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  28 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode
• h264
  No Decode
• VP9
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A9-9425 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  8 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  0 1
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  8

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and AMD A9-9425 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  95 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 25 W
• TDP down
  -- 10 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 90 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4
• L3-Cache
  6.00 MB 2.00 MB
• Architecture
  Yorkfield Stoney Ridge (Excavator)
• Technology
  45 nm 28 nm
• Socket
  AM1 FP4
• Release date
  Q1/2008 Q2/2017