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Is the AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: AM3+
Clockspeed: 3.1 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.0 GHz
Cores: 8 (in 4 physical modules)
Typical TDP: 125 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 8 x 16 KB
L1 Data Cache: 8 x 64 KB
L2 Cache: 8 x 2048 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Other names: AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor, AMD FX(tm)-8120 Eight-Core Processor (
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2011
CPUmark/$Price: 59.40
Overall Rank:
2394th fastest in multithreading out of 5489 CPUs
2977th fastest in single threading out of 5489 CPUs
644th fastest in out of 1484 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $78.02 USD (2024-05-07)
| Integer Math | 17,491 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 8,687 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 26 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 10,201 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 1,464 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 77,728 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 426 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 2,340 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,334 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 58,550 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,355 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 38,952 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,147 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,845 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,546 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,108 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,684 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,651 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 | |
| AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core | 4,634 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 282.22 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 163.67 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 159.58 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 130.77 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 130.40 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 106.30 | |
| AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core | 59.40 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 53.74 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 4,696 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,601 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,889 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,833 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,678 | |
| Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,487 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,467 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,915 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,561 | |
| AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core | 1,334 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3103976 - Dec 03 2025 | 5224 | |
| BL3098442 - Dec 01 2025 | 4956 | |
| BL3095996 - Nov 30 2025 | 5715 | |
| BL3095647 - Nov 30 2025 | 5709 | |
| BL3083472 - Nov 26 2025 | 4479 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,446 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,126 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,255 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,797 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,513 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,447 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,270 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D | 10,267 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,778 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,680 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,476 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,413 | |
| AMD FX-8120 Eight-Core | 626 |
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