Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-4130 vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4130 performs better than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4130 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.