AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX 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

2327 points

5% slightly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3661 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1854 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.25 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2409 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2392 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

792 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% 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

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

653rd of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700U vs FX-8300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700U beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700U. The FX-8300 also has significantly more 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 7 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.