AMD FX-8120 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

FX-8120 vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores than the FX-8120. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. In terms of cache, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. 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.