AMD FX-8300

AMD FX-8300 Benchmark and Specs

AMD FX-8300 Processor benchmark and specs - 3 GHz 4 core AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition CPU rating. Is the FX-8300 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

22 %
Average score from 3 samples
Medium uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
589th of 1,255
Popularity
252nd of 1,255
Samples
3 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

22 %

Gaming

Good

33 %

Multitasking

Average

18 %

Heavy Workloads

Average

18 %

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37
Geekbench 5 (multi)

Geekbench 5 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,799
Geekbench 5 (single)

Geekbench 5 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

470
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,777
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

462

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CPU Comparison

The AMD FX-8300 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE
36 %
AMD Ryzen 5 3550H
30 %
AMD FX-8300
22 %
AMD FX-8120
22 %
Intel Core i3-1115G4
19 %
Intel Core i3-8130U
14 %
Intel Core i7-6600U
12 %

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.3 GHz
Cores 4
Threads 8
L1 Cache 384 KiB
L2 Cache 8192 KiB
L3 Cache 8 MiB
Family FX 8-Core Black Edition
Memory Type DDR3

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AMD FX-8300

The FX-8300 is a 4 core CPU from AMD. This chip has an average overall score at 22% in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a good processor for gaming, with a score of 33%. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the FX-8300 scores 18% and 18% respectively. Indeed, this is an average rating for very heavy workloads.

The FX-8300 has 4 cores and 8 threads. This CPU makes use of simultaneous multithreading technology to improve performance on parallel tasks. Each physical CPU core is divided into multiple logical processors. This AMD CPU has a clock speed of 3.3 GHz.

As for memory, the FX-8300 makes use of DDR3 memory. The faster the memory, the better. Faster memory means that the CPU doesn't have to wait to get the data it needs.

In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has 384 KiB of level 1 cache, 8 MiB of level 2 cache and 8 MiB of level 3 cache. This is a fast memory located close to the processor, which stores copies of frequently used data from main memory.

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