Intel Core i7-8565U vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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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Price

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$ 2529.00
$ 78.02
$ 2450.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1896 points
2156 points
13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3181 points
0.73% slightly better gaming score
3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1530 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

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.09 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
32.29 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2327 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1601 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
3.1 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

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

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

739th of 1,089
694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8565U vs FX-8120 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i7-8565U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8565U. A Core i7-8565U 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8565U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-8565U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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