AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-7020U

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i3-7020U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Core i3-7020U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7020U 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 Core i3-7020U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7020U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7020U. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7020U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. 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.

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.