AMD FX-8350 vs AMD FX-4300

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-4300

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 49.00

$ 115.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2623 points

94% significantly better overall score

1352 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3864 points

52% significantly better gaming score

2531 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2225 points

116% significantly better multitasking score

1026 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

116% significantly better heavy workload score

986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

168% significantly higher Blender score

17.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1076 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1111 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

453 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 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

622nd of 1,114

874th of 1,114

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs FX-4300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the FX-4300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8350 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4300 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-4300. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The FX-4300 outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a slightly 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-8350 has more L2 cache than the FX-4300. The FX-8350 also has significantly more 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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.