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AMD FX-8300 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 45 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 3500

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 54 %

AMD FX-8300

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 5 3500

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

180 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

464 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

517

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,137

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,088 cb

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

2,652 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

2,311

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

4,816

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

217

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

483

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.30 GHz

1,289

6C / 6T · 3.60 GHz

2,831

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.20 GHz

96 cb

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

188 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

649 cb

6C / 6T · 4.00 GHz

1,129 cb

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
Family	AMD FX (30)	AMD Ryzen 5 (100)
CPU group	AMD FX-8000 (11)	AMD Ryzen 3000 (15)
Architecture	Vishera (Bulldozer)	Matisse (Zen 2)
Technology	32 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	AM3+	AM4 (PGA 1331)
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	6x
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.20 GHz	4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.00 GHz	4.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	32.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
GPU name	no iGPU	no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader	/	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
Memory	DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory		64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	Yes
PCIe		4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth		39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
TDP	95 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD FX-8300	AMD Ryzen 5 3500
Chip design	Unknown	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q2/2013	Q4/2019
Release price		125 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD FX-8300 is 4.2 stars (29 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 5 3500 has received 4.2 stars (34 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD FX-8300
8C / 8T · 3.30 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 5 3500
6C / 6T · 3.60 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★