AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Pentium Silver J5040 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Silver J5040 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2500U. 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 but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 2500U and Pentium Silver J5040 are identical in this regard. The Pentium Silver J5040 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2500U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.