AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs AMD FX-8300

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4057 points

83% significantly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

95% significantly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

76% significantly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

142% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

230% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

Identical

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

430th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500 vs FX-8300 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8300 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8300 has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.