AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i5-5257U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1528 points

13% slightly better overall score

1350 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2561 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

981 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points

24.92 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points

1676 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points

900 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points

1788 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points

925 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

2.7 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

53% significantly lower TDP

23 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089

856th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i5-5257U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the Ryzen 3 3250U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-5257U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3250U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-5257U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 3250U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U. The Ryzen 3 3250U also has slightly 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.