AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-2500K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HX 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-2500K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. According to our data, the Ryzen 9 5900HX and Core i5-2500K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX 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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.