The Intel X9100 and the Intel QX9300--both released in 2008--are members of Intel Corporation's Intel Core 2 Duo family of microprocessors, or computer processor units (CPUs). Despite this, there are major differences between the two chips.
Dual vs. Quad
The Intel X9100 is designed as a dual-core processor, which means that it has two processing units. The QX9300 is a quad-core processor, meaning that it has four processing units. This gives the QX9300 twice as much processing power as the X9100.
Clock Speed and Memory
The Intel X9100 has a clock (processing) speed of 3.06 gigahertz (GHz) and an L2 cache (secondary memory bank) capacity of 6 megabytes (MB). By comparison, the Intel QX9300 has a clock speed of 2.53 GHz and 12MB L2 cache memory.
Die and Transistors
Each Intel X9100 CPU is cast on a single die measuring 107 square millimeters and containing 410 million transistors. The Intel QX9300 is about four times the size of the X9100--with two dies that each measures 214 square millimeters and contains 820 million transistors.
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