AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2149 points
2198 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3146 points
9% slightly better gaming score
2867 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1828 points
1984 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points
1931 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points
25% slightly higher Blender score
25.76 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1482 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

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

702nd of 1,100
690th of 1,100

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

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