AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

4006 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

6204 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

3328 points

54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

3195 points

54% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

79.73 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

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

45 W

177% 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

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

435th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 7000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Ryzen 5 7235HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7235HS is faster than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7235HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7235HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7235HS 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 7235HS. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.