AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

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

27% slightly better overall score

1564 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

8% slightly better gaming score

2883 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

1194 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

1145 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

84% significantly higher Blender score

22.30 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1999 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

567 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

793rd 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 Xeon E5-1603 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2500U performs better than the Xeon E5-1603. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.