Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD A8-6600K

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 A8-6600K

Price

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$ 41.60

$ 76.42 significantly less expensive

$ 118.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1365 points

1366 points

0.07% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2713 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2599 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1014 points

1031 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points

989 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

18.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1128 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

468 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1081 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

453 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

3.9 GHz

14% 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

24.26 MiB

4752% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

871st of 1,118

870th 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4130 vs A8-6600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the A8-6600K performs better than the Core i3-4130. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4130. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-6600K 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 A8-6600K has more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.