AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 68.37

$ 96.62 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

5312 points

102% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

7287 points

88% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

4672 points

109% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

4523 points

111% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

4824 points

260% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

124.29 points

168% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

6235 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1560 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% 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

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs Ryzen 5 4500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500 beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 4500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.