AMD FX-8300 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.02
$ 400.98 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points
5333 points
141% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points
7406 points
123% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points
4663 points
149% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points
4507 points
151% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points
127.97 points
264% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points
6221 points
245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points
1526 points
224% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points
6107 points
255% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1564 points
240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.70 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

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

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,118
322nd of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-8300 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G is faster than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8300. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G outputs less heat than FX-8300 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 FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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