Intel Core i5-6500 vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8120

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 78.02

$ 25.61 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

6% slightly better overall score

2156 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

34% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

1833 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

1760 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points

158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs FX-8120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500 beats the FX-8120 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8120 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8120. A Core i5-6500 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8120 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500. The FX-8120 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.