AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD A8-6600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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

1528 points
11% slightly better overall score
1366 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
11% slightly better gaming score
2599 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
12% slightly better multitasking score
1031 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
989 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
18.74 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1128 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
468 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1081 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
453 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.9 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.2 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
Identical
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
24.26 MiB
2326% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
848th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 3 3250U vs A8-6600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 3250U performs better than the A8-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U

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 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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