AMD Ryzen 7 3700U vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-2500K

Price

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$ 1963.00

$ 133.55

$ 1829.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2551 points

9% slightly better overall score

2325 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4199 points

4281 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2073 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1776 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1989 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1704 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.48 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

34.51 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2494 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1893 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

867 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

629 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2670 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1910 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

916 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

650 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

2.3 GHz

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

615th of 1,089

654th of 1,089

Family

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Ryzen 7 Mobile with Radeon RX Vega Graphics

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 3700U vs Core i5-2500K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700U beats the Core i5-2500K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 3700U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700U. A Ryzen 7 3700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 3700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.