Ryzen 3 3250U vs Celeron 877

Place in the ranking	2945	1770
Place by popularity	not in top-100	96
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Celeron	AMD Ryzen 3
Power efficiency	no data	15.14
Architecture codename	Sandy Bridge (2011−2013)	Picasso (2019−2022)
Release date	1 July 2012 (12 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$86	no data

Detailed specifications

Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	1.4 GHz	2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	1.4 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus type	DMI 2.0	no data
Bus rate	4 × 5 GT/s	no data
Multiplier	14	26
L1 cache	64K (per core)	128K (per core)
L2 cache	256K (per core)	512K (per core)
L3 cache	2 MB (shared)	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	32 nm	12 nm
Die size	131 mm²	246 mm²
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	504 million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+

Compatibility

Information on Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1 (Uniprocessor)	1
Socket	FCBGA1023	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	-	+
FMA	+	+
AVX	-	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	+	no data
My WiFi	-	no data
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	-	no data
Idle States	+	no data
Thermal Monitoring	+	-
Flex Memory Access	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FDI	+	no data
Fast Memory Access	+	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data
Anti-Theft	-	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U are enumerated here.

AMD-V	-	+
VT-d	-	no data
VT-x	+	no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR3	DDR4
Maximum memory size	16 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	2	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	21.335 GB/s	38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card	Intel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3
Graphics max frequency	1 GHz	no data

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported	2	no data
eDP	+	no data
DisplayPort	+	-
HDMI	+	-
SDVO	+	no data
CRT	+	no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U.

PCIe version	2.0	3.0
PCI Express lanes	16	12

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Celeron 877 0.44

Ryzen 3 3250U 2.40
+445%

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Celeron 877 693

Ryzen 3 3250U 3805
+449%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Celeron 877 242

Ryzen 3 3250U 750
+210%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Celeron 877 457

Ryzen 3 3250U 1456
+219%

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Celeron 877 1

Ryzen 3 3250U 4
+269%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.44	2.40
Recency	1 July 2012	6 January 2020
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	32 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	17 Watt	15 Watt

Ryzen 3 3250U has a 445.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 7 years, 100% more threads, a 166.7% more advanced lithography process, and 13.3% lower power consumption.

The Ryzen 3 3250U is our recommended choice as it beats the Celeron 877 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Celeron 877 and Ryzen 3 3250U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.