Comparison of AMD FX-8120 and Intel Core i7-4820K

Attribute	Intel Core i7-4820K ×	AMD FX-8120 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition	AMD FX
Model	Intel Core i7-4820K	AMD FX-8120
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	8
Frequency (GHz)	3.7	3.1
CPU Threads	8	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.9	4
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.8	-
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	DDR3-1866
PCIe lanes	40	-
PCIe version	3.0	-
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2012
Technology (Nm)	22	32
Socket	LGA 2011	AM3+
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	10	8
Architecture	Ivy Bridge E	Zambezi
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	130	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	10,355	6,596
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	825	479
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,392	2,085
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	141	89
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	728	587
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.75	0.96
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8.75	5.14
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,813	1,997
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	15,097	10,888