AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2620

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 129.13 significantly less expensive

$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2694 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3212 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

2534 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

2503 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

38.93 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2793 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

459 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1902 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

60% significantly higher turbo speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8120 vs Xeon E5-2620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 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 Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8120 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8120. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620. The Xeon E5-2620 outputs less heat than FX-8120 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.