Comparison of AMD FX-8120 and Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3

Attribute	AMD FX-8120 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD FX	Intel Xeon E5
Model	AMD FX-8120	Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	1.6
CPU Threads	8	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4	-
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	DDR4-2133
PCIe lanes	-	40
PCIe version	-	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2012	2014
Technology (Nm)	32	22
Socket	AM3+	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	amd-v	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	8	15
Architecture	Zambezi	Haswell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	95	85
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	6,596	5,179
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	479	412
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,085	2,201
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	89	62
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	587	511
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	0.96	0.77
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.14	5.2
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,997	1,662
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,888	10,848