AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

2156 points

2898 points

34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

4205 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

2534 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

2452 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

84.75 points

162% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

7276 points

378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

694th of 1,089

554th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8120 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

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