Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD FX-8120

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 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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$ 79.83

$ 78.02

$ 1.81 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

2156 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1833 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1760 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

115% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

8 MiB

1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs FX-8120 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8120 beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8120 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8120. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8120 CPU because of its significantly 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 Pentium Gold G6400. The FX-8120 also has significantly more 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 Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.