Intel Pentium Gold G5420 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G5000 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core2 Duo
• Generation
  8 2
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Successor
  - No

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.8 GHz 2.83 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  12 -
• Execution units
  12 -
• Generation
  9.5 -
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz -
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 610 -
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz -
• Max. displays
  3 -
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB -
• Release date
  Q3/2016 -
• Shader
  96 -
• Technology
  14 nm -

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

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode -
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode -
• VC-1
  Decode -
• VP8
  Decode / Encode -
• VP9
  Decode / Encode -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 and Intel Pentium Gold G5420. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 16 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR2-800 / DDR3-1066
• PCIe lanes
  16 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G5420 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 90 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  54 W 95 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  - No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G5420 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Coffee Lake S Yorkfield
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1
• L2-Cache
  - 12 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB No
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q1/2008
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 775
• Technology
  14 nm 45 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-d