Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD A8-9600

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-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
$ 13.10
$ 28.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1405 points
1435 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2793 points
3% slightly better gaming score
2697 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1043 points
1088 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1001 points
1044 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
37% slightly higher Blender score
19.59 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1359 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
569 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1498 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
611 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
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

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
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

836th of 1,089
828th of 1,089

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
2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i3-4130 vs A8-9600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-9600 beats the Core i3-4130 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the A8-9600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4130 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a A8-9600 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 A8-9600 has significantly 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.

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