AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-8145U

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i3-8145U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Core i3-8145U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8145U 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 Core i3-8145U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8145U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8145U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i3-8145U 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 Core i3-8145U. 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.