Comparison of AMD FX-8120 and Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2 ×	AMD FX-8120 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E5	AMD FX
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2	AMD FX-8120
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	8
Frequency (GHz)	2	3.1
CPU Threads	16	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.5	4
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	2.2	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	DDR3-1600	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)	20	8
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EP	Zambezi
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	95	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	10,213	6,596
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	456	479
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	4,106	2,085
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	94	89
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	710	587
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.08	0.96
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8.63	5.14
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,170	1,997
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	15,970	10,888