Testseek.com have collected 54 expert reviews of the AMD FX-8120 3.1GHz socket AM3 Plus and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD FX-8120 3.1GHz socket AM3 Plus.
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54 Reviews
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Improved idle power consumption over Phenom II, Nicely packaged
Struggles to match a four year old design, Uses a lot of power, Poor performance/watt ratio, Gets defeated by CPUs with half the cores
The AMD Bulldozer architecture certainly has its advantages when the applications can utilise all of the cores and threads when you compare it to their older Phenom II range of processors. However, in certain games, it does appear to perform worse. Ev...
Abstract: AMD's latest processors have been launched. The CPUs with Code name Bulldozer, also know as FX-8150 and FX-8120 are the first octa core CPUs which have been introduced to the consumer and enthusiast market. Today we are testing both eight core based Bu...
Abstract: AMD's latest processors have been launched. The CPUs with Code name Bulldozer, also know as FX-8150 and FX-8120 are the first octa core CPUs which have been introduced to the consumer and enthusiast market. Today we are testing both eight core based Bulld...
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Published: 2013-02-11, Author: Don , review by: tomshardware.com
Abstract: Now that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between frames....
Abstract: Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86 C...
Abstract: Not long after the launch of Bulldozer, AMD have filled their ranks with an entire gamma of CPUs based on this microarchitecture, with the prefix FX, which is a marketing trick supposed to remind us of the “good old times” when FX CPUs were the alpha a...
Sadly, its more of the same bad news for AMD or anyone with a Socket AM3+ motherboard looking for a decent CPU for around the £150 mark. The FX-8120 just isn't a good choice when it comes to the kind of applications we run on our PCs. It's regularly outpa...
The CPU presentation box is very special, much more interesting than the solution chosen by Intel; the included CPU cooler is pretty loud and we recommend acquiring a custom cooling solution right from the start. By using a high-end air CPU cooler, ...
Good performance in multithread programs, Availability, Price
Bad performance in single thread, Power consumption (especially if overclocked)
FX-8120, like the Bulldozer platform in whole, is bit of a weird product on the market. While it has mediocre performance in multithreaded programs, it falls far behind similarly priced Intel processors in singlethreaded programs. Intel i5 2500K did b...
