AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD A10-7850K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 2 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

1996 points
48% significantly better overall score
1343 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points
23% slightly better gaming score
2540 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points
62% significantly better multitasking score
1015 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score
973 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points
152% significantly higher Blender score
16.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1597 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
523 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points
110% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1137 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
449 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3.7 GHz
85% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089
860th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October
2014 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 5 2500U vs A10-7850K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the A10-7850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-7850K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a A10-7850K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the A10-7850K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 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 Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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