Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 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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$ 150.25

$ 78.02

$ 72.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

121% significantly better overall score

2156 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

113% significantly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

126% significantly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

127% significantly better heavy workload score

1760 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

238% significantly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5865 points

266% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1478 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

292% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

274% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

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

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th 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

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700 vs FX-8120 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the FX-8120 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8120 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8120. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. A Core i7-8700 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 i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8120.

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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.