AMD Ryzen 3 2300U vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

1981 points

1996 points

0.76% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3542 points

13% slightly better gaming score

3127 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1521 points

1653 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1456 points

1584 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2097 points

2311 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

809 points

830 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2768 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2396 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

952 points

16% 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

2 GHz

Identical

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

15 W

Identical

15 W

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

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

723rd of 1,089

718th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 3 2300U vs Ryzen 5 2500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2300U is faster than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 3 2300U and Ryzen 5 2500U have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 2300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.