Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel 8th 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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$ 1527.00

$ 78.02

$ 1448.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

2156 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

1833 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

1760 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3.1 GHz

93% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% 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

738th of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs FX-8120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. A Core i5-8250U 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 i5-8250U. 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.