AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2149 points
3217 points
49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points
4679 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points
2809 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points
2718 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points
84.75 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points
7276 points
378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points
2112 points
415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.4 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
23% slightly more L2 cache
6.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

714th of 1,118
527th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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No

FX-8120 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 150U is faster than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the FX-8120 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8120. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the FX-8120 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U 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 FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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