Intel Core i3-2130 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 47.09
$ 0.93 slightly less expensive
$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1392 points
1445 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2662 points
0.30% slightly better gaming score
2654 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1049 points
1105 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1007 points
1061 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

14.70 points
19.89 points
35% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1298 points
1342 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

574 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
398 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1064 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1037 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

521 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
342 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

862nd of 1,119
843rd of 1,119

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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Core i3-2130 vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Core i3-2130 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-2130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-2130. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-2130. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-2130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-2130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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