AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 980 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Phenom II X4 980 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.