AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U vs AMD FX-8120

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Apr 2019
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U
AMD FX-8120
AMD Socket AM3+DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 8 / Oct 2011
AMD FX-8120

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U

110 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD FX-8120.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD FX-8120

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD FX-8120

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD FX-8120

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
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 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsAMD Bulldozer
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenamePicassovsZambezi
Release DateApr 2019vsOct 2011

Cores

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
Cores4vs8
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 6vsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs384 KB
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs8192 KB
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsAMD Socket AM3+
Max Case TempN/Avsunknown
PackageFP5vsuPGA
Die Size210mm²vs315mm²
Process12 nmvs32 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300UAMD FX-8120
Cpu Frequency2100 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clock3500 MHzvs4000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs200 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.425 V
TDP15 Wvs125 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U
    3850 points
  • AMD FX-8120
    2360 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 3300U
    9240 points
  • AMD FX-8120
    11998 points

Points - higher is better