Comparison of AMD FX-8120 and AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Attribute	AMD FX-8120 ×	AMD Phenom II X6 1100T ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	AMD
Series	AMD FX	AMD Phenom II
Model	AMD FX-8120	AMD Phenom II X6 1100T
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	3.3
CPU Threads	8	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4	3.7
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.7
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	4	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR2-1066
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2012	2010
Technology (Nm)	32	-
Socket	AM3+	AM3
Virtualization	amd-v	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	6
Architecture	Zambezi	Thuban
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	95	125
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	6,596	5,868
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	479	508
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,085	2,225
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	89	93
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	587	501
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	-	209
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	-	1,093
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.96	1.12
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.14	5.81
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,997	1,935
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,888	9,502