AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 74.99

$ 29.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

5931 points

134% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

7969 points

115% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

5267 points

143% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

5102 points

146% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2853 points

5451 points

91% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

141.88 points

273% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

7589 points

318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

1833 points

297% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

7653 points

327% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1872 points

308% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% 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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the FX-8320 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8320 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8320 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8320.

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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.