AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-2500

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

1% slightly better overall score

1975 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3663 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1502 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1441 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

26.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1687 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

571 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1692 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

592 points

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

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

725th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-2500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.