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AMD Sempron 3850 vs Intel Core i3-3250

Last updated: 2026-04-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 25 %

AMD Sempron 3850

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-3250

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 42 %

AMD Sempron 3850

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-3250

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.30 GHz

158

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

610

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.30 GHz

495

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,272

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

4C / 4T · 1.30 GHz

170

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

687

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

4C / 4T · 1.30 GHz

606

2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

1,577

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon HD 8280

115

Intel HD Graphics 2500

101

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
Family	AMD Sempron (2)	Intel Core i3 (205)
CPU group	AMD Sempron 2000/3000 (2)	Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture	Kabini (Jaguar)	Ivy Bridge S
Technology	28 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	AM1	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	2 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	2x
Frequency:	1.30 GHz	3.50 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):
Turbo (All Cores):
L2-Cache	2.00 MB
L3-Cache		3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 8280	Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency	0.45 GHz	0.65 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	2 / 128	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	28 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q2/2013	Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
Memory	DDR3L-1600 (12.8 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
TDP	25 W	55 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Sempron 3850	Intel Core i3-3250
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q2/2014	Q2/2013
Release price	30 $	117 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Sempron 3850 is 3.7 stars (6 ratings), while Intel Core i3-3250 has received 4.5 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Sempron 3850
4C / 4T · 1.30 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i3-3250
2C / 4T · 3.50 GHz

★★★★★