AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Core i3-2130

A8-9600 vs Core i3-2130 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-9600 is faster than the Core i3-2130. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2130 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-2130 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.