AMD FX-8120 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2149 points

3089 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points

4905 points

55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points

2545 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points

2445 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

64.47 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

3685 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

1171 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

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

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

714th of 1,118

546th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8120 vs Ryzen 5 7520U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7520U is faster than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7520U 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 info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The FX-8120 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.