AMD FX-4130 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400

FX-4130 vs Core 2 Quad Q9400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4130 performs better than the Core 2 Quad Q9400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4130 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4130 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9400. The Core 2 Quad Q9400 outputs less heat than FX-4130 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9400 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4130

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 FX-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.