AMD FX-4130 vs Intel Core i3-3240

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-3240

Price

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$ 52.02

$ 41.00

$ 11.02 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points

1315 points

0.31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points

2538 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points

0.71% slightly better multitasking score

986 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points

0.74% slightly better heavy workload score

946 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points

19.18 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1340 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1122 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

547 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1060 points

1110 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

544 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

55 W

127% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

868th of 1,089

866th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4130 vs Core i3-3240 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4130 performs better than the Core i3-3240. Despite this, the Core i3-3240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3240. The Core i3-3240 outputs less heat than FX-4130 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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