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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 vs Intel Celeron N3000

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Celeron N3000

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Rank 2 - 26 %

Intel Celeron N3000

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

4C / 4T · 2.83 GHz

460

2C / 2T · 2.08 GHz

210

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

4C / 4T · 2.83 GHz

1,527

2C / 2T · 2.08 GHz

391

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 (SC)
250 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 Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
Family	Intel Core2 Quad (19)	Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group	Intel Core 2 Quad Q8000/Q9000 (16)	Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 (10)
Architecture	Yorkfield (Penryn)	Braswell
Technology	45 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 775	BGA 1170
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	2 / 2
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	2x
Frequency:	2.83 GHz	1.04 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		2.08 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.08 GHz
L2-Cache	12.00 MB
L3-Cache		2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 400
GPU frequency		0.32 - 0.60 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	12 / 96
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		14 nm
Release date		Q1/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
Memory	DDR3-1066 (17.1 GB/s) DDR2-800 (12.8 GB/s)	DDR3L-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		2.0 x 4
PCIe Bandwidth		2.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
TDP	95 W	4 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down		3 W
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550	Intel Celeron N3000
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	MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q1/2008	Q1/2015
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 Core 2 Quad Q9550 is 4.7 stars (35 ratings), while Intel Celeron N3000 has received 4.0 stars (2 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
4C / 4T · 2.83 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Celeron N3000
2C / 2T · 1.04 - 2.08 GHz

★★★★★