AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel N97

Ryzen 5 2500U vs N97 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the N97 in overall performance. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Both the Ryzen 5 2500U and N97 have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The N97 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.