AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Pentium Gold G6405. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6405 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6405 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.