Ryzen 3 3250U: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 3 3250U
2020
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.40

Ryzen 3 3250U provides poor benchmark performance at 2.40% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 3 3250U sales 6 January 2020. This is a Picasso architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 2 cores and 4 threads, and is based on 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 3500 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket FP5 processor with a TDP of 15 Watt. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 3 3250U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking1783
Place by popularity80
Market segmentLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 3
Power efficiency15.14of 100.00 (Core Ultra 7 164U)
Architecture codenamePicasso (2019−2022)
Release date6 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores2 (Dual-core)
Threads4
Base clock speed2.6 GHzof 4.7 GHz (Ryzen 9 7900X)
Boost clock speed3.5 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier26of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache128K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache4 MB (shared)of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography12 nmof 3 nm (Core Ultra 9 285K)
Die size246 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cof 110 °C (Core Ultra 9 185H)
Number of transistors4500 Millionof 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 3 3250U compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration1of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8454H)
SocketFP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

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

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 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+
Precision Boost 2+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 3 3250U's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size32 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9654)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9654)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 3 3250U.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version3.0of 5.0 (EPYC 9655P)
PCI Express lanes12of 128 (EPYC 9655P)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 3 3250U. Overall benchmark performance 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.

Ryzen 3 3250U 2.40

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.

Ryzen 3 3250U 3810

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.

Ryzen 3 3250U 748

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.

Ryzen 3 3250U 1455

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 3 3250U 4088

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 3 3250U 10251

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 3 3250U 3966

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.

Ryzen 3 3250U 4

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 3 3250U 353

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 3 3250U 122

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 3 3250U 1.46

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 3 3250U 1.9

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 3 3250U 1710

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 3 3250U 21

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 3 3250U 101

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 3 3250U 1662

Blender(-)

Ryzen 3 3250U 1399

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 3 3250U 824

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 3 3250U 3291

7-Zip

Ryzen 3 3250U 9063

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 3 3250U 140

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 3 3250U 624

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Ryzen 3 3250U 105

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Ryzen 3 3250U 2541

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 3 3250U's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook CPUs.


Core i5-7360U 100.83
Ryzen 3 3250U 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 3 3250U is Core i7-7560U, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 6 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 3 3250U:

Core i5-7360U 100.83
Ryzen 3 3250U 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 3 3250U, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 3 3250U in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 40064 configurations using Ryzen 3 3250U in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
0.9% (347/40064)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.007% (3/40064)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
0.02% (8/40064)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.06% (24/40064)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
0.007% (3/40064)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.3% (119/40064)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.007% (3/40064)
RX 6950 XT Radeon RX 6950 XT
0.02% (8/40064)
RTX 3080 Ti GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
0.4% (157/40064)

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