AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 136.57 significantly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

11120 points

323% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

13778 points

255% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

10239 points

359% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

9995 points

367% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

9722 points

626% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

302.05 points

551% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

16965 points

752% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

3349 points

586% 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.5 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

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

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the FX-8350 that 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 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has significantly more 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.