AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 227.36 significantly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1352 points

10741 points

694% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2531 points

12741 points

403% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1026 points

10051 points

879% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

986 points

9837 points

897% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.26 points

266.15 points

1442% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1076 points

14475 points

1245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

434 points

2771 points

538% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1111 points

14835 points

1235% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

2879 points

535% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

3.80 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.3 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

512 KiB

166% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

32 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

855th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-4300 vs Ryzen 7 7700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-4300. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 outputs less heat than FX-4300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-4300. The Ryzen 7 7700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.