AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

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
2357 points
54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3808 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1930 points
66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1850 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
37.23 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
2457 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
862 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
2505 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
875 points
16% slightly 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
23% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
3.7 GHz
5% 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

2
Identical
2

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
650th 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
2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Ryzen 5 3500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster 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 Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Ryzen 3 3250U. 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 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U 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 5 3500U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3250U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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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