AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon X5650

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

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Intel Xeon X5650

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 46.96

$ 31.06 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2207 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3219 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

1889 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

1825 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

44.76 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2315 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

451 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

2241 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

445 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

16% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 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

433% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

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 X5650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8120 is faster than the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8120 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8120. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. The Xeon X5650 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8120.

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.