AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i7-2860QM

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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Price

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$ 78.02

$ 20.00 slightly less expensive

$ 98.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

433% significantly better overall score

404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

405% significantly better gaming score

625 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

443% significantly better multitasking score

337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

443% significantly better heavy workload score

324 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

27.93 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

1628 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

513 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1715 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

562 points

37% 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

3.1 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

1,081st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8120 vs Core i7-2860QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8120 performs better than the Core i7-2860QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2860QM in all gaming tests too.

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-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2860QM. The Core i7-2860QM 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.