AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

2292 points

14% slightly better overall score

1996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

34% slightly better gaming score

3127 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1653 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1584 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

41.24 points

0.68% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2311 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

830 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2396 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

818 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

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

661st of 1,089

718th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Ryzen 5 2500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 3 1200 beats the Ryzen 5 2500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 2500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1200 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 3 1200 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.