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Intel Celeron N2940 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 47 %

Intel Celeron N2940

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 45 %

Intel Celeron N2940

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

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

4C / 4T · 2.25 GHz

218

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

469

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

4C / 4T · 2.25 GHz

730

4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

1,550

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 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

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
Family	Intel Celeron (165)	Intel Core2 Quad (19)
CPU group	Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 (17)	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000 (16)
Architecture	Bay Trail	Yorkfield (Penryn)
Technology	22 nm	45 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1170	LGA 775
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.83 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.25 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.25 GHz
L2-Cache		12.00 MB
L3-Cache	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2013

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s) DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
TDP	7.5 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2940	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	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	Q2/2014	Q3/2008
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Celeron N2940 is 2.2 stars (5 ratings), while Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650 has received 4.3 stars (37 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Celeron N2940
4C / 4T · 1.83 - 2.25 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
4C / 4T · 3.00 GHz

★★★★★