AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Core i9-12900T

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

6632 points

207% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

7128 points

125% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

6506 points

254% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

6504 points

269% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

188.94 points

485% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

11628 points

664% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

2268 points

453% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

124% significantly higher clock speed

1.38 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.9 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

35 W

257% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

30 MiB

274% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

214th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

12th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8120 vs Core i9-12900T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-12900T performs better than the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-12900T has significantly more cores with 16 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 i9-12900T. The Core i9-12900T 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 info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Core i9-12900T. Despite this, the Core i9-12900T has significantly 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.