AMD FX-4130 vs Intel Core i7-870

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 i7-870

Price

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$ 52.02

$ 111.02 significantly less expensive

$ 163.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points

1923 points

46% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points

3090 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points

1576 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points

1513 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points

37.74 points

145% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1340 points

1563 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points

485 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1060 points

1550 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

475 points

14% 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

29% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

732nd 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 i7-870 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the FX-4130 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4130 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-870 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4130 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 i7-870. The Core i7-870 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 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.