AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

8% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3374 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

29.86 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

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

753rd 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

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Ryzen 5 2500U vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 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.