AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7-4900MQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

2307 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3862 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

1859 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

1784 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

54.97 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2842 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

933 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3402 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1123 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.80 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

213% significantly lower TDP

47 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

659th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i7-4900MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4900MQ is faster than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i7-4900MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4900MQ CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2500U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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.