Intel Core2Quad Q9300 (stock) 2.5Ghz / 333 FSB
8GB DDR2 (4x2GB) 400Mhz 5-5-5-15-2T
XFX Radeon R7 250X 2GB DDR3
Silicon Power 240GB S60 SATA6G SSD
Image Editing
49045
Time: 174.939
Encoding
30060
Time: 398.799
OpenCL
24569
KSamples/sec: 357
Heavy Multitasking
25417
Time: 384.772
System Score
27358
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Edit: To add, my Skylake G4400 rig, stock 3.3Ghz, dual-core SKL, Kingston 4GB DDR4-2133 CAS 15, no GPU
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Image Editing
92889
Time: 92.368
Encoding
28312
Time: 423.416
OpenCL
18007
KSamples/sec: 156
Heavy Multitasking
23028
Time: 424.691
System Score
36957
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IMPORTANT: SKL G4400 results are running SINGLE-CHANNEL DDR4-2133.
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I'm a little surprised that the Q9300 came out ahead in anything, actually. This SKL G4400 rig is VERY "peppy". But it looks like a true quad-core can still win out, over a dual-core, in some things.
Edit: I will also note, that at the beginning of the "Heavy Multitasking" test, where they play a video in the background - the first few seconds of that looked really weird and macro-block-y. I put that down the SKL video drivers being still fairly new, although it could indicate an issue with the RAM or SSD in my rig, I suppose.
There were also some pauses, stalls, really, in the video during the heavy multitasking test, that I don't really remember when I benched them with my quad-core. Perhaps those are why the score was lower than the Q9300.
Edit: To add, my SKL G4400 results are with a SINGLE 4GB DDR4-2133 RAM stick, so it's running in single-channel mode. Will re-bench in my new mobos when they arrive, with dual-channel.