AMD FX-8120 vs AMD FX-8370E

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-8370E

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 134.00 significantly less expensive

$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2163 points

0.32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3237 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

0.38% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

0.40% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

34.44 points

6% slightly higher Blender 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

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

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

Identical

8 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

691st 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-8370E benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the FX-8370E in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8370E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8120. The FX-8370E 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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.