Intel Core i5-7400T vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel 7th 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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$ 64.56

$ 13.46 slightly less expensive

$ 78.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1685 points

2156 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1274 points

1833 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1223 points

1760 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.25 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2718 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

983 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2847 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1029 points

150% 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

2.4 GHz

3.1 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

257% 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

778th of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7400T vs FX-8120 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8120 is faster than the Core i5-7400T. Despite this, the Core i5-7400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8120 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7400T. A Core i5-7400T 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7400T. The FX-8120 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.