AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i5-8350U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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
1943 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3266 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1565 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1497 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
41.73 points
120% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
728th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i5-8350U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8350U 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 Core i5-8350U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the Core i5-8350U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3250U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3250U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3250U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-8350U 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.

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