AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i3-6100

AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2000 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Core i3-6100

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    140%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    111%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    191%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 91% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

11% higher single threaded performance.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL
FMA3

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Skylake
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameRaven RidgevsSkylake
Release DateOct 2017vsSep 2015

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
Cores4vs2
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 8vsIntel HD 530

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs65°C
PackageFP5vs
Die Size210mm²vs150mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i3-6100
Cpu Frequency2000 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clock3600 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP15 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    3960 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    4255 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    10736 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    10297 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    138
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    614
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    321

points - higher is better