AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3250U beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U

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