Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD FX-4300

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 41.60
$ 7.40 slightly less expensive
$ 49.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1405 points
3% slightly better overall score
1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2793 points
10% slightly better gaming score
2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1043 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1001 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
17.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1809 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1076 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

925 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
434 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1111 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1018 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
453 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
3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
75% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
4 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

836th of 1,089
855th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3
FX 4-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i3-4130 vs FX-4300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-4130 performs better than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-4130. A Core i3-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-4300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130. The FX-4300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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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