Intel Core i5-4200M vs AMD Ryzen 5 5625U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1121 points
4185 points
273% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2225 points
5956 points
167% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

833 points
3648 points
337% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

799 points
3528 points
341% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.84 points
101.12 points
436% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

1618 points
9100 points
462% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1716 points
5479 points
219% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

876 points
1585 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.3 GHz
38% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

37 W
15 W
146% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

918th of 1,089
421st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 November
2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-4200M vs Ryzen 5 5625U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5625U performs better than the Core i5-4200M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5625U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4200M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4200M. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4200M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5625U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5625U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5625U outputs less heat than Core i5-4200M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-4200M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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