AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-4310U

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-4310U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Core i5-4310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4310U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4310U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4310U. Both the Ryzen 5 2500U and Core i5-4310U have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U 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.

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.