AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD FX-8350

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
2623 points
71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3863 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
2225 points
92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
2136 points
92% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
46.35 points
144% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
2027 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
493 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
1989 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
488 points

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
4 GHz
53% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.2 GHz
20% 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

824th of 1,118
626th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 3 3250U vs FX-8350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8350 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the FX-8350 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 FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8350 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 FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The FX-8350 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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