AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs Intel Core i5-8265U

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Core i5-8265U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8265U beats the Ryzen 3 3200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3200U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8265U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Indeed, the Core i5-8265U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3200U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3200U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-8265U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.