AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 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

2327 points

22% slightly better overall score

1907 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3661 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

1532 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1854 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

1465 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.25 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

38.03 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3603 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

3194 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2409 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1971 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

771 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

653rd of 1,089

738th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 2700U vs Core i5-8250U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700U beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 2700U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 2700U.

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 7 2700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.