AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD FX-6300

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 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

10% slightly better overall score

1799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2999 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

1441 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

1382 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

28.92 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

472 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1426 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

454 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

3.5 GHz

75% significantly 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

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

288 KiB

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

757th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 2500U vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2500U has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2500U. The FX-6300 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.