AMD Ryzen 5 3550H 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2822 points

27% slightly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4389 points

32% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2256 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

52.83 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2861 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

944 points

105% 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

35 W

171% 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

585th of 1,118

699th of 1,118

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 3550H vs FX-8300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3550H performs better than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3550H CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8300 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-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3550H. The FX-8300 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.