AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Core i7-4600M

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

9% slightly better overall score

1394 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2774 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1034 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

992 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points

30.90 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points

1735 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points

961 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points

1926 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points

1013 points

34% 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

2.9 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

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

146% significantly lower TDP

37 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089

841st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2013 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Core i7-4600M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4600M 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Also, the Core i7-4600M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4600M CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.