AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-11400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 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

5669 points

184% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

8320 points

166% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

4844 points

193% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

4676 points

195% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

128.47 points

211% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

7380 points

219% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

1895 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

7590 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1979 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.6 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

277th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-11400F comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11400F 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400F CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.