AMD FX-8300 vs AMD FX-8120

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

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AMD FX-8120

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 78.02

$ 20.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2% slightly better overall score

2156 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1760 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 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

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8300 vs FX-8120 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8120. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.