AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 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
3069 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
4852 points
67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
2533 points
119% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
2427 points
118% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
67.00 points
253% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2080 points
5522 points
165% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
3526 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
1224 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
3621 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
1212 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
Identical
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
3.8 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB
256 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

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
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
531st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Ryzen 3 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Ryzen 3 5300U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 5300U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 3 5300U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 3250U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Both the Ryzen 3 3250U and Ryzen 3 5300U have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5300U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 3 5300U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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