Core i3-4130 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the Core i3-4130. 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 Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4130. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 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 Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 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.
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