AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

2529 points
6405 points
153% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points
9018 points
144% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2155 points
5593 points
159% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2068 points
5403 points
161% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points
153.60 points
304% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points
7982 points
345% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
2119 points
362% 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

3.5 GHz
3.50 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.9 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
28 W
346% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
6 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

643rd of 1,124
240th of 1,124

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-8320 vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 8640HS performs better than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has significantly more cores than the FX-8320. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320. Also, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8640HS 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 8640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8320.

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.

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