AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD FX-8350

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-8350

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 164.99

$ 1293.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2626 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

3873 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2226 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2136 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

46.35 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 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

4 GHz

90% 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

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

605th 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-8350 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The FX-8350 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.