AMD FX-4300 vs Intel Core i3-2130

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 i3-2130

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 47.09

$ 1.91 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

1392 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

2662 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

1049 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

1007 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

14.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

1298 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

574 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1064 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

521 points

15% 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

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

878th of 1,119

862nd of 1,119

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Core i3-2130 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-2130 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2130. The Core i3-2130 outputs less heat than FX-4300 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-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.