AMD FX-8120 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 70.02 significantly less expensive

$ 148.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2261 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3641 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

Identical

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

0.06% slightly better heavy workload score

1759 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

33.09 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

671st of 1,089

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FX 8-Core Black Edition

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Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8120 vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the FX-8120. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. The info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1090T. The FX-8120 also has slightly more 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.