AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 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
12% slightly better overall score
1781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points
3465 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
1333 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
1279 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2215 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points
1047 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
2.40 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% 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

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
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089
761st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Athlon Gold 7220U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 7220U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Our comparison shows that the Athlon Gold 7220U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Athlon Gold 7220U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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