Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD FX-870K

Core i3-4130 vs FX-870K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-870K beats the Core i3-4130 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-4130. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-870K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130

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.