Intel Core i3-4130 vs Intel Core i5-2400

Core i3-4130 vs Core i5-2400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2400 beats the Core i3-4130 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4130 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2400 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-4130. Indeed, the Core i5-2400 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 Core i5-2400. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.