AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs AMD FX-8350

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1963.00
$ 164.99
$ 1798.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points
2626 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points
8% slightly better gaming score
3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points
2226 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points
2136 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points
0.28% slightly higher Blender score
46.35 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2027 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
493 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1989 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
4 GHz
73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
733% 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

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

615th of 1,089
605th 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

2019 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700U vs FX-8350 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700U performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. The FX-8350 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 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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