AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3147 points

24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4989 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2595 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2494 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

64.47 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3685 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1171 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 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

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Ryzen 5 7520U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7520U performs better than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The info from our database shows that the FX-8320 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The FX-8320 also has significantly more 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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.