Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD FX-8120

Core i3-8130U vs FX-8120 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8120 is faster than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-8130U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8120 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U. The FX-8120 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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.