Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Review

Testing:

Sciencemark tests real world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we ran the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.

Higher is Better!

Cinebench is useful for testing your system, CPU and OpenGL capabilities using the software program CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.

Higher is Better

HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.

Higher is Better

Lower is Better

Handily beating the Q6600 in these performance bechmarks was the expected result. Higher core clockspeeds and a higher front side bus should outperform a lower clocked processor. Drive performance shows little to no difference between processors.