AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 3000 Series 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
1604 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3118 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1201 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1153 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
18.14 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
1676 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
818 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
8% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

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
Identical
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
787th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Athlon 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 3 3250U vs Athlon Gold 3150U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 3150U is faster than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U 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 Ryzen 3 3250U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 3150U. Also, the Ryzen 3 3250U 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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