AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 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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$ 224.25

$ 98.02

$ 126.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6447 points

191% significantly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8765 points

164% significantly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5700 points

205% significantly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5518 points

207% significantly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

342% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

374% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

335% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

404% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

359% 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

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

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

235th of 1,118

699th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs FX-8300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X 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. The info from our database shows that the FX-8300 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.