AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Core i5-8250U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the Ryzen 3 2200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8250U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 2200U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2200U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 2200U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-8250U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.