AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

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
2% slightly better overall score
1496 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3% slightly better gaming score
2813 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1133 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
1088 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
354 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 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
809th 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 960T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3250U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. The Phenom II X4 960T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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