AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

14% slightly better overall score

1884 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points

19% slightly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1596 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

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

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

50% significantly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

710th of 1,112

761st of 1,112

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 E5-620 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 Xeon E5-620. Also, the FX-8120 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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 Xeon E5-620. 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.