AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i5-3570

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

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Intel Core i5-3570

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 112.20 significantly less expensive

$ 190.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2149 points

2165 points

0.74% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points

3984 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1654 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1587 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

0.94% slightly higher Blender score

31.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

1923 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

657 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1926 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

656 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

77 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

714th of 1,118

708th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8120 vs Core i5-3570 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3570 performs better than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8120 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3570 outputs less heat than FX-8120 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.