AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1349 points

2211 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2702 points

3316 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

985 points

1866 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points

1792 points

91% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.48 points

35.10 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1473 points

1799 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

723 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1594 points

1719 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 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

2.5 GHz

3.3 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

858th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 2200U vs FX-8300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 2200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2200U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 2200U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 2200U. The FX-8300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.