Ryzen 3 3250U vs Atom 330

Place in the ranking	3190	1784
Place by popularity	not in top-100	80
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	Intel Atom	AMD Ryzen 3
Power efficiency	2.72	15.14
Architecture codename	Diamondville (2008−2009)	Picasso (2019−2022)
Release date	2 April 2008 (16 years ago)	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$43	no data

Detailed specifications

Atom 330 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	4	4
Base clock speed	1.6 GHz	2.6 GHz
Boost clock speed	0.1 GHz	3.5 GHz
Bus type	FSB	no data
Bus rate	533.33 MT/s	no data
Multiplier	12	26
L1 cache	112 KB	128K (per core)
L2 cache	1 MB	512K (per core)
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	45 nm	12 nm
Die size	51.9276 mm²	246 mm²
Maximum core temperature	85 °C	95 °C
Number of transistors	94 Million	4500 Million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	+
VID voltage range	0.9V-1.1625V	no data

Compatibility

Information on Atom 330 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	PBGA437	FP5
Power consumption (TDP)	8 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom 330 and Ryzen 3 3250U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	Intel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3	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
Turbo Boost Technology	-	no data
Hyper-Threading Technology	+	no data
Demand Based Switching	-	no data
FSB parity	-	no data
Precision Boost 2	no data	+

Security technologies

Atom 330 and Ryzen 3 3250U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	-	no data
EDB	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom 330 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 Atom 330 and Ryzen 3 3250U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	no data	DDR4
Maximum memory size	8 GB	32 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	no data	38.397 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1200 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom 330 and Ryzen 3 3250U.

PCIe version	no data	3.0
PCI Express lanes	no data	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.

Atom 330 0.23

Ryzen 3 3250U 2.40
+943%

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.

Atom 330 363

Ryzen 3 3250U 3813
+950%

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.

Atom 330 542

Ryzen 3 3250U 4088
+654%

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.

Atom 330 1530

Ryzen 3 3250U 10251
+570%

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.

Atom 330 825

Ryzen 3 3250U 3966
+381%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Atom 330 116.45

Ryzen 3 3250U 14.5
+703%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	0.23	2.40
Recency	2 April 2008	6 January 2020
Chip lithography	45 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	8 Watt	15 Watt

Atom 330 has 87.5% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 3 3250U, on the other hand, has a 943.5% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 11 years, and a 275% more advanced lithography process.

The Ryzen 3 3250U is our recommended choice as it beats the Atom 330 in performance tests.

Should you still have questions on choice between Atom 330 and Ryzen 3 3250U, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.