AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 234.62 significantly less expensive

$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

7335 points

179% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

8938 points

130% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

6797 points

205% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

6646 points

211% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

7297 points

445% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

209.61 points

352% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

10897 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

2052 points

316% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

11047 points

455% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

2117 points

333% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.5 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

105 W

19% slightly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

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

96 MiB

1100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 7 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 7 5800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the FX-8350. 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 7 5800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 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 7 5800X3D. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.