AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-2320

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-2320 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2320 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2320 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.