AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

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

2% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3586 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1436 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

33.16 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1894 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

631 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.19 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

736th of 1,115

743rd of 1,115

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 Xeon E3-1225 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Xeon E3-1225 V2 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1225 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 V2 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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.