AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-6400T

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

34% slightly better overall score

1487 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

21% slightly better gaming score

2581 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

1170 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

1126 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

33.08 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2387 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

896 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

2547 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

937 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.2 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

812th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-6400T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Core i5-6400T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6400T 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6400T has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i5-6400T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.