Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i7-4720HQ specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4720HQ 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4720HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4720HQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4720HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4720HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.
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.
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