AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs AMD FX-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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-8300

Price

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$ 67.00

$ 31.02 significantly less expensive

$ 98.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points

125% significantly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points

103% significantly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points

136% significantly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points

138% significantly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points

280% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6809 points

278% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1560 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points

301% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points

251% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

Identical

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% 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

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3600 vs FX-8300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8300. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.