AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-8365U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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

3% slightly better overall score

1927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3320 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1537 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1474 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

41.28 points

0.12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2419 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

638 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

731st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-8365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8365U beats the Ryzen 5 2500U in overall performance. 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 and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U 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.

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.