AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD 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
1654 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3032 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1265 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1214 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
0.08% slightly higher Blender score
18.93 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
3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 3 3250U vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the Ryzen 3 3250U. 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 Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3250U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 3250U has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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.

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