Intel Core i5-7300U vs AMD FX-8120

Core i5-7300U vs FX-8120 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i5-7300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-7300U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7300U. A Core i5-7300U 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 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 i5-7300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.