AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

5% slightly better overall score

1887 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3022 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1539 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1476 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

27.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

2.7 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

744th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Phenom II X6 1045T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2500U is faster than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1045T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1045T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. The Phenom II X6 1045T also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.