Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD A10-6700

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 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

$ 41.60
$ 56.42 significantly less expensive
$ 98.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1405 points
1454 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2793 points
0.36% slightly better gaming score
2783 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1043 points
1092 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1001 points
1046 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
23.53 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1126 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
484 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1100 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
454 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
3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
20% slightly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

836th of 1,089
821st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i3-4130 vs A10-6700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the A10-6700 beats the Core i3-4130 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the A10-6700 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4130. Indeed, the A10-6700 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-4130. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A10-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4130. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a A10-6700 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the A10-6700 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130

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 i3-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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