AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Athlon 3000G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon 3000G CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 5 2500U has more L2 cache than the Athlon 3000G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.