AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD FX-8350

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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$ 269.00

$ 164.99

$ 104.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

275% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

156% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

341% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

360% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

661% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

577% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points

480% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points

334% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

492% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

350% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

14% 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

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs FX-8350 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. 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 9 5900X. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.