amd ryzen 5 3500u vs amd ryzen 3 3250u
VS
We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U (Laptop) 4-cores against AMD Ryzen 3 3250U (Laptop) 2-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 3500U
- Has 2 more physical cores
- 5% higher Turbo Boost frequency (3.7 GHz vs 3.5 GHz)
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR4 Dual-channel RAM
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 3 3250U
- Newer released 1 years later
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | January 6 2019 | January 6 2020 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Picasso | Picasso |
| Socket | FP5 | FP5 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Cores | 4 | 2 |
| Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Base Frequency | 2.1 GHz | 2.6 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 3.7 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 128K (per core) | 128K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 4 MB (shared) | 4 MB (shared) |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Fabrication process | 12 nm | 12 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 W | 15 W |
| Max. temperature | °C | 95°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | DDR4 Dual-channel |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 38.397 GB/s | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC Support | Yes | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 |
| GPU Base Clock | 300 MHz | 300 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 192 |
| TMUs | 32 | 12 |
| ROPs | 8 | 8 |
| TGP | 65 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 3500U | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 3500U official page | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3 | 3 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 12 | 12 |