AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs AMD FX-8100

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Aug 2018
AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
AMD FX-8100
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
2800 MHz / Cores: 8 / Oct 2011
AMD FX-8100

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.
Higher overall performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-8100

None

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
SSE4a
CLMUL
CVT16
FMA4
XOP
Turbo Core
HT3.1

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Bulldozer
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameZenvsZambezi
Release DateAug 2018vsOct 2011

Cores

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
Cores4vs8
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs384 KB
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs8192 KB
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageµOPGA-1331vsuPGA
Die Size210mm²vs315mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XAMD FX-8100
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs2800 MHz
Turbo Clock4200 MHzvs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
Voltagevariablevs1.425 V
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    4620 points
  • AMD FX-8100
    2183 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    15400 points
  • AMD FX-8100
    10837 points

Points - higher is better