AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i5-4690

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4690

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 52.00

$ 26.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2149 points

2283 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points

4150 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1755 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1684 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

47.68 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

3261 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

1162 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

3344 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

1212 points

195% 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

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

84 W

48% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

714th of 1,118

685th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 i5-4690 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4690 beats the FX-8120 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8120 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4690 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.

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.