Intel Core i3-2130 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1392 points
1400 points
0.57% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2662 points
2698 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
Identical
1049 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
0.10% slightly better heavy workload score
1006 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.70 points
18.63 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points
1209 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

521 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.89 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

858th of 1,114
854th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

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