AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 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
11% slightly better overall score
1794 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points
3637 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
1325 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
1273 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
36.40 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1655 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
804 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
4.01 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
286% significantly lower TDP
58 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089
758th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Pentium Gold G6400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6400 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6400 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 Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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