Intel Core i3-4160 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

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

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AMD Athlon 3000G

Price

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$ 98.00

$ 69.99

$ 28.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1444 points

1477 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1081 points

1135 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1038 points

1095 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.82 points

31.38 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1850 points

1966 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

962 points

0.52% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

957 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2084 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1970 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1076 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

956 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

35 W

54% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

823rd of 1,089

813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4160 vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G beats the Core i3-4160 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-4160 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i3-4160 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 3000G. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i3-4160 thanks to a 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 i3-4160 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.