AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i5-4670K

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i5-4670K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4670K beats the Ryzen 3 3250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-4670K 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 Core i5-4670K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. Also, the Core i5-4670K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4670K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-4670K also has significantly more 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.