Intel Core i3-4130 vs Intel Core i3-2120

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Price

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$ 41.60
$ 128.40 significantly less expensive
$ 170.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1365 points
4% slightly better overall score
1307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2713 points
8% slightly better gaming score
2496 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1014 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
949 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
89% significantly higher Blender score
14.23 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1073 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
516 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1022 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
497 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
20% slightly lower TDP
65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

851st of 1,092
872nd of 1,092

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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