AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-6200U

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-6200U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Core i5-6200U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-6200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-6200U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. 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.