AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 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

2534 points
4208 points
66% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
6127 points
65% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points
3638 points
68% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points
3518 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points
94.21 points
148% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points
5599 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
1594 points
248% 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
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 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
15 W
733% 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
420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

FX-8320 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores than the FX-8320. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8320.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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