AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-6500T

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

17% slightly better overall score

1700 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3223 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

1288 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

1236 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

45.50 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2781 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

1003 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

2827 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1042 points

27% 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

2.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 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

775th 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 i5-6500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Core i5-6500T. Despite this, the Core i5-6500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-6500T has a slightly 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 i5-6500T 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.