AMD FX-4130 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points

1361 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points

2723 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points

1012 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points

975 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points

32.79 points

113% significantly higher Blender 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

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

868th of 1,089

851st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4130 vs Core i7-6498DU comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6498DU is faster than the FX-4130. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4130 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4130 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the FX-4130 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 FX-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.