AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD FX-8120

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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-8120

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 78.02

$ 1379.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

9% slightly better overall score

2156 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

20% slightly better gaming score

3158 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1760 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

32.29 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1601 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1521 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 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

2.1 GHz

3.1 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% 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

650th of 1,089

694th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs FX-8120 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8120 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8120 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The FX-8120 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 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.