Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD FX-8120

Core i7-7600U vs FX-8120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i7-7600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7600U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U. A Core i7-7600U 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.