Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-8130U vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core i3-8130U. Despite this, the Core i3-8130U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 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 Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8130U. The Phenom II X4 945 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.