AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 184.99
$ 133.55
$ 51.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
219% significantly better overall score
2325 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
103% significantly better gaming score
4281 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
294% significantly better multitasking score
1776 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
303% significantly better heavy workload score
1704 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
143% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2748 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
470% significantly higher Blender score
34.51 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
357% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1893 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
629 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
368% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1910 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
650 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
654th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-2500K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700G is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G 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.

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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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