AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-7350K

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i3-7350K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2500U performs better than the Core i3-7350K. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7350K. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-7350K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.