AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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

1996 points

39% slightly better overall score

1435 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

15% slightly better gaming score

2697 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

1088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

1044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

19.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1359 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

569 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1498 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 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

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 2500U vs A8-9600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2500U performs better than the A8-9600. Despite this, the A8-9600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a A8-9600 CPU because of its 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

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 Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.