Intel Q9450 vs Phenom 9850 - ATI HD3870 X2

[Hornet331]

Your mama!

getting personal arn't we.

It depends on the application (the code). You can analyze things until you die... But if you check the code then you have it!
Single threaded games then QX9650 will win big, the big L2 cache is a huge advantage on singel threaded games at low res.

If the game is using two threads then C2D will win, C2Q is going to be a bit slower and last is Phenom. If the game is using three threads and they are doing some synchronization. Then Phenom will probably win, it depends on how the threads are using memory and talks to each other. C2D is going to runt two threads on one core and that will slow that processor. C2Q isn’t good at synchronizing and if two threads are writing to the same data then it also is going to decrease its speed. More threads and Phenom will increase its advantage.
If the game is using MUCH memory (almost as databases) then Phenom will probably win if the game is using two threads.
The Core 2 architecture is very good for single threaded applications. This isn’t any arguing about. It is built to perform well for that.

ok since your so fixated on multithreading, how about looking for some supreme commander benches.