AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3250U is faster than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3250U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.