AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

1996 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points

3127 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points

1653 points

42% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points

1584 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points

41.24 points

117% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points

2311 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points

830 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points

2396 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points

818 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

192 KiB

384 KiB

100% significantly 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

718th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Ryzen 5 2500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2500U performs better than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3250U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3250U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3250U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly 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.