AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Athlon X4 950 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 950 performs better than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3250U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. Also, the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 950 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more L2 cache than 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.