Intel Core i3-4130 vs Intel Core i3-3240

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Price

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$ 41.60
$ 41.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1365 points
3% slightly better overall score
1315 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2713 points
6% slightly better gaming score
2538 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1014 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
986 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

973 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
946 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
19.18 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1122 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
547 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1110 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
544 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
Identical
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
1% slightly lower TDP
55 W

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
869th of 1,092

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

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