AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2822 points

56% significantly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

46% significantly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3087 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

2098 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

288 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% 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

566th of 1,089

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 6-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

Ryzen 5 3550H vs FX-6300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3550H is faster than the FX-6300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3550H has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a FX-6300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The FX-6300 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 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.