AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD FX-6300

Ryzen 5 2500U vs FX-6300 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 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. Also, the FX-6300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-6300 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 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.