AMD FX-4300 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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$ 49.00

$ 121.00 significantly less expensive

$ 170.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

3% slightly better overall score

1307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2496 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

949 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

14.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

0.28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1073 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

516 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1022 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

497 points

9% 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

3.8 GHz

15% 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

855th 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-4300 vs Core i3-2120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-4300 performs better than the Core i3-2120. Despite this, the Core i3-2120 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-2120. The Core i3-2120 outputs less heat than FX-4300 thanks to a 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 FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.