AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs AMD FX-8350

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4057 points
54% significantly better overall score
2623 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points
67% significantly better gaming score
3865 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points
48% significantly better multitasking score
2225 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4797 points
258% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
1338 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points
83% significantly higher Blender score
46.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2027 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
493 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points
172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1989 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points
210% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
8
33% slightly 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

4.1 GHz
4.2 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

436th of 1,099
612th of 1,099

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
Yes

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