AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i7-9850HL benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9850HL 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9850HL 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 slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL 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.