AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

FX-8120 vs Core i7-9850HL benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Core i7-9850HL in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8120 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 i7-9850HL. The Core i7-9850HL 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has slightly 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.