AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs AMD FX-8350

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-8350

Price

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$ 339.99

$ 164.99

$ 175.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points

149% significantly better overall score

2623 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

104% significantly better gaming score

3863 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points

174% significantly better multitasking score

2225 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points

180% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points

364% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points

300% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points

348% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

248% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 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

3.9 GHz

4 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

19% slightly lower TDP

125 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

229th of 1,118

626th 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 3800X vs FX-8350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3800X is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3800X has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8350. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800X CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8350 CPU because of its slightly 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-8350 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3800X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.