AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD FX-8320E

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-8320E

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 178.02

$ 46.23 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

173% significantly better overall score

2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

153% significantly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

184% significantly better multitasking score

1993 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

186% significantly better heavy workload score

1917 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

331% significantly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

428% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

371% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

415% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

382% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 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

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

4 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

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

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

226th of 1,089

651st 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

2020 May

2014 September

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-8320E specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the FX-8320E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8320E has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320E. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320E. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E 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 Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8320E. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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