Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i3-4130 vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i3-4130. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-4130 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 651. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 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.