AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

2779 points
4342 points
56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points
7190 points
74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
3534 points
50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points
3381 points
49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points
85.75 points
65% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points
7114 points
250% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points
2111 points
310% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz
214% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
23% slightly more L2 cache
6.5 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

575th of 1,089
407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-9370 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the FX-9370 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9370. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The info from our database shows that the FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-9370.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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