Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 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

2748 points

1% slightly better overall score

2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4553 points

6% slightly better gaming score

4257 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2217 points

2242 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2125 points

2151 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.31 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

41.85 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2399 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1113 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

944 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2520 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

15 W

213% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

579th of 1,089

586th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-5700HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U beats the Core i7-5700HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U outputs less heat than Core i7-5700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U.

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 i7-5700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.