AMD FX-4130 vs Intel Core i7-860

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

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Intel Core i7-860

Price

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$ 52.02

$ 2.23 slightly less expensive

$ 54.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points

1632 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points

2607 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points

1342 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points

1289 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points

30.74 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1340 points

1475 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1060 points

1475 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

451 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

868th of 1,089

783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-4130 vs Core i7-860 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4130 performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-860 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4130 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4130. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. The Core i7-860 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.