AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Core i3-2120

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i3-2120

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 170.00

$ 220.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1307 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2496 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

989 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

949 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

14.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1073 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

516 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1022 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

497 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

869th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4100 vs Core i3-2120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2120 performs better than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2120.

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.