AMD FX-8320E 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

2342 points

3147 points

34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3438 points

4989 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1993 points

2595 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1917 points

2494 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.00 points

64.47 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1680 points

3685 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

437 points

1171 points

167% 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

3.2 GHz

14% 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

95 W

15 W

533% 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

2 MiB

Identical

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

651st 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

2014 September

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320E vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7520U beats the FX-8320E in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E 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-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The FX-8320E also has significantly more L3 cache.

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