AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium G4560

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Pentium G4560 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Pentium G4560 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4560 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4560. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4560. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4560. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4560 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4560 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2500U has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4560. The Ryzen 5 2500U also has slightly 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.