AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD FX-8300

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series 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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$ 184.99

$ 98.02

$ 86.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points

236% significantly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

163% significantly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

275% significantly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

283% significantly better heavy workload score

1792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

461% significantly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points

381% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points

314% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

420% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1719 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

338% 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

3.8 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

9% 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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs FX-8300 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700G performs better than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the FX-8300 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.