AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Ryzen 3 3250U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The Phenom II X4 945 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.