Comparison of AMD Phenom II X4 940 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

Attribute	AMD Phenom II X4 940 ×	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Phenom II	Intel Core2 Duo
Model	AMD Phenom II X4 940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	3	2.5
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	2.5
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.5
Encryption
AES-NI	-	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR2-1066	-
ECC	-	-
Memory channels	2	0
Technical details
Release date (year)	2009	2008
Socket	AM2+	AM1
Virtualization	amd-rvi amd-v	vt-d vt-x
L3-Cache (MB)	6	6
Architecture	Deneb	-
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	125	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	3,738	3,156
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	401	352
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	1,339	1,093
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	79	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	304	-
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	-	178
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	-	693
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.91	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3.58	-
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,602	1,478
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5,610	4,983