AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD FX-8350

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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AMD FX-8350

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 67.00 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

64% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

51% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

71% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

159% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

125% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

143% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

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

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs FX-8350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.