Intel Core i3-8130U vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i3-8130U vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 955 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 Phenom II X4 955 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. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.