AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon X5570

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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Intel Xeon X5570

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 20.93 slightly less expensive

$ 98.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2200 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3421 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

0.55% slightly better multitasking score

1823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

0.57% slightly better heavy workload score

1750 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2624 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

541 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1741 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

480 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

685th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 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 X5570 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5570 performs better than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8120 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. The Xeon X5570 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5570. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.