Intel Core i3-4130 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-4130 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 945 is faster than the Core i3-4130. Despite this, the Core i3-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4130 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-4130. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.