Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

$ 639.00
$ 48.02
$ 590.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1216 points
1463 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points
2727 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points
1106 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points
1058 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1873 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

984 points
219% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points
225% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz
3 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089
819th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-8130U vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8130U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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