AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

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

2085 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3523 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

1671 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

1597 points

0.82% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

43.52 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

2622 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

878 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (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

11% slightly higher clock speed

1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

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

706th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2017 August

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 i7-8550U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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.