AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-12100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 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

5115 points

156% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

8339 points

166% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

4166 points

152% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

4001 points

152% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

111.80 points

171% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

6822 points

195% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

2105 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

6766 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

2147 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.3 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

300% significantly lower TDP

60 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

320 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

337th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i3-12100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i3-12100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-12100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.