AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 11.73 slightly less expensive

$ 89.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

20% slightly better overall score

1785 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3540 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

1329 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

0.21% slightly higher Blender score

32.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1714 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

842 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

4.1 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

58 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

760th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8120 vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Pentium Gold G6405 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6405 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. The Pentium Gold G6405 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.