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

30 %

36% slightly better overall score

22 %

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

46 %

39% slightly better gaming score

33 %

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

25 %

38% slightly better multitasking score

18 %

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

24 %

33% slightly better heavy workload score

18 %

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

58.05

58% significantly higher Blender score

36.68

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2842

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

947

101% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2821

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1777

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

938

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

462

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

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

272nd of 627

370th of 627

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

January 2019

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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. 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.