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General information FX-8120 A8-6500
Launched Q4 2011 Q3 2013
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD AMD
Socket AM3+ FM2
Series Name AMD FX AMD A8
Core Family Name Zambezi Richland
Clock 3.1 GHz 11.4 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 2.4 % 4.1 GHz 0 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 8 0 % 4 50 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 125 W 0 % 65 W 48 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 64 kB Data
8 × 16 kB Instruction
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 8 × 1 MB
2 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance FX-8120 A8-6500
Overall Score 41624 0 % 36746 11.7 %
Future Proof 27 % 27 % 37 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 3002 0 % 1823 39.3 %
Single Thread Score 1339 9.5 % 1479.8 0 %
Encrypting Data 1444.9 MB/s 65.2 % 4150.2 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 77.4 MB/s 0 % 45.8 MB/s 40.8 %
String objects sorting 10277.7 thousand/s 0 % 5898.4 thousand/s 42.6 %
Prime numbers generation 24.9 millions/s 0 % 11 millions/s 55.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 17419.5 millions/s 8.6 % 19062 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 8638.3 millions/s 0 % 5108.6 millions/s 40.9 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for FX-8120, A8-6500.

Average frames per second FX-8120 A8-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 78.3 FPS 63.9 FPS
High settings 125.3 FPS 102.2 FPS
Medium settings 156.7 FPS 127.7 FPS
Low settings 195.8 FPS 159.7 FPS
Difference 0 % 18.5 %

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-8120 A8-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 123.8 FPS 115.2 FPS
High settings 198.1 FPS 184.4 FPS
Medium settings 247.6 FPS 230.5 FPS
Low settings 309.5 FPS 288.1 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %
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