Intel Core i3-4130 vs Intel Core i5-3337U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1405 points
48% significantly better overall score
946 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2793 points
49% significantly better gaming score
1866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1043 points
47% significantly better multitasking score
706 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1001 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score
677 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
167% significantly higher Blender score
10.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
814 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
394 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
808 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
403 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
88% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
17 W
217% significantly lower TDP

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

836th of 1,089
970th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
2013 February

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

Core i3-4130 vs Core i5-3337U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-4130 beats the Core i5-3337U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3337U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4130 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3337U. The Core i5-3337U outputs less heat than Core i3-4130 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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