AMD Ryzen 3 3200U vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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
1996 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2556 points
3127 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

999 points
1653 points
65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

972 points
1584 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.47 points
41.24 points
166% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
2311 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

801 points
830 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1532 points
2396 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

797 points
818 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
384 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

864th of 1,089
718th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 3 3200U vs Ryzen 5 2500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Ryzen 3 3200U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3200U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3200U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3200U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 3200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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