AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 149.50 significantly less expensive

$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

13554 points

416% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

13457 points

247% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

13583 points

510% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

13587 points

536% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

12798 points

856% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

412.82 points

790% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

17426 points

759% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

2844 points

476% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

17750 points

792% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

2946 points

503% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.6 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

36% slightly lower TDP

170 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

64 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8350 vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X 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 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8350. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-8350. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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.