AMD Ryzen 3 3250U vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 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
1881 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2901 points
3441 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1156 points
1439 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1110 points
1379 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.95 points
27.68 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1400 points
2143 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

742 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
649 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1461 points
1577 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

752 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
532 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
3.1 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

804th of 1,089
746th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 3 3250U vs Xeon E3-1220 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1220 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 Xeon E3-1220 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 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 Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 3250U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 3250U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 3250U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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