Intel Core i3-2120 vs AMD FX-9830P

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

1307 points
1362 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2496 points
2574 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

989 points
1031 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

949 points
990 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1073 points
1621 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points
636 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1022 points
1465 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points
613 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

869th of 1,089
849th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Core i3-2120 vs FX-9830P specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9830P performs better than the Core i3-2120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2120 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-2120 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-2120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-9830P.

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 Core i3-2120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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