AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-9100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th 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

2845 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

5304 points

69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

2160 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

2073 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

54.00 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

3579 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

1335 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3650 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1394 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

561st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i3-9100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-9100 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-9100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i3-9100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-9100 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2500U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100. Despite this, the Core i3-9100 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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.