Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i3-8130U vs FX-9830P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-8130U is faster than the FX-9830P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-8130U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-8130U. In terms of cache, the FX-9830P has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8130U

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.