stdout is a FILE* pointer giving the standard output stream. So obviously fprintf(stdout, "x=%d\n", x); has the same behavior as printf("x=%d\n", x);; you use stdout for <stdio.h> functions such as fprintf(), fputs() etc..
STDOUT_FILENO is an integer file descriptor (actually, the integer 1). You might use it for write syscall.
The relation between the two is STDOUT_FILENO == fileno(stdout)
(Except after you do weird things like fclose(stdout);, or perhaps some freopen after some fclose(stdin), which you should almost never do! See this, as commented by J.F.Sebastian)
You usually prefer the FILE* things, because they are buffered (so usually perform well). Sometimes, you may want to call fflush() to flush buffers.
You could use file descriptor numbers for syscalls such as write() (which is used by the stdio library), or poll(). But using syscalls is clumsy. It may give you very good efficiency (but that is hard to code), but very often the stdio library is good enough (and more portable).
(Of course you should #include <stdio.h> for the stdio functions, and #include <unistd.h> – and some other headers – for the syscalls like write. And the stdio functions are implemented with syscalls, so fprintf() may call write()).