AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD FX-8350

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series 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-8350

Price

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$ 235.64

$ 164.99

$ 70.65 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5232 points

99% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7191 points

85% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4599 points

106% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4451 points

108% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4871 points

264% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

165% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6106 points

206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1578 points

223% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 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

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

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

92% 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

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

322nd of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 4000 G-Series Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 4600G vs FX-8350 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 4600G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.