AMD FX-9370 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 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

2779 points

2% slightly better overall score

2711 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

4257 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2242 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2151 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

41.85 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

2399 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points

944 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

2520 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

868 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz

120% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

15 W

1366% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

586th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-9370 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Also, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U outputs less heat than FX-9370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-9370 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. The FX-9370 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 FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.