AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7-6820HQ

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i7-6820HQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6820HQ 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6820HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6820HQ 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.