AMD FX-8120 vs AMD FX-8320E

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

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AMD FX-8320E

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 100.00 significantly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2342 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3438 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

1993 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

1917 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

36.00 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

1615 points

0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1680 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

437 points

6% 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

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8120 vs FX-8320E benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. The FX-8320E outputs less heat than FX-8120 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8320E. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.