Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Core i5-3450

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 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
$ 95.00
$ 544.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1216 points
1948 points
60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points
3568 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points
1491 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points
1432 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points
30.26 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1873 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1809 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

984 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
611 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1776 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
606 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
3.1 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
413% significantly lower TDP
77 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
Identical
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089
727th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-8130U vs Core i5-3450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3450 beats the Core i3-8130U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3450 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Core i5-3450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. Also, the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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