AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-6300

Price

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$ 87.91

$ 50.00

$ 37.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

89% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

75% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

97% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

97% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points

89% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

138% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

288 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% 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

495th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs FX-6300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a FX-6300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The FX-6300 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 Ryzen 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.