AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD FX-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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$ 198.00

$ 98.02

$ 99.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6353 points

187% significantly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7653 points

130% significantly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5918 points

217% significantly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5793 points

223% significantly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

413% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points

351% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points

245% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

370% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4% 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

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% 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

244th of 1,118

699th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs FX-8300 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-8300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. Also, the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.