AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5030

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Silver Series 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
38% slightly better overall score
1107 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
34% slightly better gaming score
2151 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
40% slightly better multitasking score
823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
41% slightly better heavy workload score
784 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
11.38 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2080 points
128% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
911 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
778 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
352 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
136% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
6 W
150% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
922nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Pentium Silver N5030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 3250U is faster than the Pentium Silver N5030. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N5030 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Pentium Silver N5030 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3250U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 3250U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N5030. The Pentium Silver N5030 outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 3250U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 3250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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