Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735U

Core i5-8250U vs Ryzen 7 7735U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7735U beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Ryzen 7 7735U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7735U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7735U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. The Ryzen 7 7735U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.