Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE

Core i7-6500U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6500U beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-6500U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE CPU because of its 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.