Ryzen 3 3250U vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 3250U beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly 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.
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