AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD FX-8300

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-8300

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 98.02

$ 1359.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

6% slightly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 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

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% 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

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

681st 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs FX-8300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The info from our database shows that the FX-8300 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The FX-8300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.