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Intel Atom x7-E3950 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

Last updated: 2026-06-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 87 %

Intel Atom x7-E3950

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 86 %

Intel Atom x7-E3950

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

94 cb

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

178 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.00 GHz

307

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

352

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

275 cb

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

693 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.60 GHz

1,154

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,093

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Intel Core2 Quad (19)
CPU group	Intel Atom x3/x5/x7 (9)	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000 (16)
Architecture	Cherry Trail	Yorkfield (Penryn)
Technology	14 nm	45 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1296	LGA 775
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.60 GHz	2.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache		6.00 MB
L3-Cache	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 505	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.50 - 0.65 GHz
CUs / Shader	18 / 144	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB
Technology	14 nm
Release date	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
Memory	LPDDR3-1866 (38.4 GB/s)	DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s) DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	2.0 x 6
PCIe Bandwidth	3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
TDP	12 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	110 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom x7-E3950	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems		Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1
Release date	Q4/2016	Q1/2008
Release price	57 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

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Intel Atom x7-E3950
4C / 4T · 1.60 - 2.00 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300
4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

★★★★★