AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD FX-8320

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 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

2534 points

65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points

3698 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points

2159 points

86% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points

2072 points

86% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points

37.97 points

100% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points

1814 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points

1791 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.5 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

384 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089

620th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 3250U vs FX-8320 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3250U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8320 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3250U. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320 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 FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The FX-8320 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.