AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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 i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 420.98 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

12% slightly better overall score

1913 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3059 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1573 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1510 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

41.56 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2717 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

717 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

2007 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

602 points

46% significantly 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

733rd of 1,089

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 i7-3820QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i7-3820QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3820QM. The Core i7-3820QM 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.