AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs Intel Core i7-3540M

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1321 points

1405 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2556 points

2845 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

999 points

1034 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

972 points

993 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.47 points

19.50 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

803 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

801 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

442 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1532 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1163 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

797 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

569 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

864th of 1,089

837th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Core i7-3540M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3200U is faster than the Core i7-3540M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3540M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3200U. Also, the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3540M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.