AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 78.02
$ 36.94 significantly less expensive
$ 114.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points
2278 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points
4637 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points
4134 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points
1961 points
378% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
46 W
171% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
139% significantly more L1 cache
160 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
220% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089
667th 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

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2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-8120 vs Pentium Gold G7400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G7400 beats the FX-8120 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

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 G7400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. The Pentium Gold G7400 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 Pentium Gold G7400. The FX-8120 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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