G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $364. SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16. Based on 102,850 user benchmarks for the Intel Core i3-9100F and the Core2 Duo E8400, we rank them both on effective speed and value for money against the best 1,429 CPUs.
In single-threaded programs, the Core i3-2100 has 67% higher performance. In multi-threaded applications, the i3-2100 microprocessor has 106% better performance. The i3-2100 supports SSE4.1 and SSE4.2 instructions. The Core i3-2100 CPU includes AVX instructions, that were introduced in modern processors not too far ago. Below is a complete set of Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 and Core i3-4130 benchmarks from our CPU benchmark database. The former processor was tested on ASRock 4Core1600Twins-P35 motherboard with 2 GB dual-channel Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9 DDR3 memory, and Powercolor 24PRO256M DDR2 (ATI Radeon HD2400). The latter processor was tested on Intel DH87RL p1zw.