AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD FX-8350

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 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

2626 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3873 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

2226 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

2136 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

46.35 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

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

4 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% 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

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

FX 8-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

Yes

Ryzen 5 2500U vs FX-8350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8350 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. The FX-8350 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.