AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD FX-8120

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 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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$ 79.99

$ 78.02

$ 1.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

6% slightly better overall score

2156 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

33% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

1833 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

1760 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

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

Identical

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly 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

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs FX-8120 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 1200 is faster 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. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 3 1200 and FX-8120 are identical in this regard. A Ryzen 3 1200 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8120 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1200. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.