AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD FX-8320

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-8320

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 104.04

$ 1353.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2534 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2159 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2072 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

37.97 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1814 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1791 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 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

3.5 GHz

66% 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

620th 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-8320 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The FX-8320 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.