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General information FX-6120 Core i7-870
Launched Q2 2012 Q3 2009
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM3+ LGA1156
Series Name AMD FX Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Zambezi Lynnfield
Clock 3.5 GHz 0 % 2.9 GHz 17.1 %
Turbo Clock 4.1 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 12.2 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 6 25 % 8 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 95 W 0 %
Lithography 32 nm 28.9 % 45 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 3 × 64 kB Instruction
6 × 16 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 3 × 2 MB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 8 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No Yes
Performance FX-6120 Core i7-870
Overall Score 39816 0 % 37690 5.3 %
Future Proof 30 % 0 % 14 % 53.3 %
Benchmark Score 2513 0 % 2018 19.7 %
Single Thread Score 1400.6 0 % 1371.2 2.1 %
Encrypting Data 1187.6 MB/s 74.2 % 4603.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 64.2 MB/s 2.8 % 66.1 MB/s 0 %
String objects sorting 8716.7 thousand/s 6.2 % 9293 thousand/s 0 %
Prime numbers generation 22 millions/s 0 % 20.8 millions/s 5.3 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14204.7 millions/s 17 % 17117 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7134.6 millions/s 2.5 % 7318.7 millions/s 0 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for FX-6120, Core i7-870.

Average frames per second FX-6120 Core i7-870
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 73.0 FPS 66.7 FPS
High settings 116.8 FPS 106.7 FPS
Medium settings 145.9 FPS 133.3 FPS
Low settings 182.4 FPS 166.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 8.6 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V FX-6120 Core i7-870
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 120.8 FPS 117.0 FPS
High settings 193.3 FPS 187.2 FPS
Medium settings 241.6 FPS 234.0 FPS
Low settings 302.0 FPS 292.5 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.1 %
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