Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD A8-6500

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-6500

Price

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$ 41.60

$ 243.09 significantly less expensive

$ 284.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1365 points

1387 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2713 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2608 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1014 points

1049 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

1007 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

20.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1350 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

496 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1029 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% 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

Identical

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

871st of 1,118

865th of 1,118

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

A8-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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4130 vs A8-6500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6500 performs better than the Core i3-4130. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4130. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-6500 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-6500 has significantly 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.