AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD FX-8350

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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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$ 87.91

$ 77.08 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

29% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

35% slightly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points

196% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

124% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

Identical

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% 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

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 8-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-8350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3400G beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The FX-8350 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 5 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.