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AMD Ryzen 3 3250C vs Apple M1

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 42 %

AMD Ryzen 3 3250C

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 20 %

AMD Ryzen 3 3250C

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

957

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

1,449

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

771

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

1,586

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)

461

Apple M1 (8 Core)

2,610

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
Family	AMD Ryzen 3 (34)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 3000C (3)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	Picasso (Zen+)	M1
Technology	12 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket	FP5
Predecessor
Successor	AMD Ryzen 3 5425C	Apple M2

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 2.60 - 3.50 GHz	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	1.00 MB	16.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
GPU name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge)	Apple M1 (8 Core)
GPU frequency	1.20 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	3 / 192	128 / 1024
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q1/2018	Q4/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 20	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth	19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
TDP	15 W	18 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W	20 W
TDP down	12 W	10 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 3250C	Apple M1
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	macOS
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2020	Q4/2020
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 3 3250C is 4.2 stars (5 ratings), while Apple M1 has received 4.5 stars (773 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 3 3250C
2C / 4T · 2.60 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★