AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 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

2711 points

2788 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4257 points

23% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2242 points

2584 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2151 points

2521 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.85 points

212.94 points

408% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2520 points

13475 points

434% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

868 points

2524 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

Identical

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

41% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

28 MiB

1300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

24 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

587th of 1,089

572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U vs Core Ultra 7 255H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 255H is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Both the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U and Core Ultra 7 255H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. The Core Ultra 7 255H 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 PRO 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.