AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD FX-6100

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 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

27% slightly better overall score

1562 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

1252 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

1201 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

27.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1175 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

375 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1240 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

387 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.3 GHz

64% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

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

795th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 2500U vs FX-6100 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2500U performs better than the FX-6100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6100 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. Our comparison shows that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. In terms of cache, the FX-6100 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. The FX-6100 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.