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    AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-8350U

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
    2000 MHz / Cores: 4 / Oct 2017
    AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
    Intel Core i5-8350U
    Intel BGA1356MOBILE
    1700 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2017
    Intel Core i5-8350U

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      106%
    • Intel Core i5-8350U
      100%

    Relative performance

    Single thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      100%
    • Intel Core i5-8350U
      112%

    Relative performance

    Multi thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      123%
    • Intel Core i5-8350U
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2500U

    Much higher multi threaded performance (around 23% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.

    Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-8350U

    12% 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 i5-8350U
    MMX
    3DNow!
    SSE
    SSE2
    SSE3
    SSE4A
    AMD64
    CnQ
    NX bit
    AMD-V
    SMT
    SSSE3
    SSE4.2
    AVX
    AVX2
    EIST
    Intel 64
    XD bit
    VT-x
    VT-d
    AES-NI
    TSX
    TXT
    CLMUL
    FMA3
    F16C
    BMI1
    BMI2
    Boost 2.0

    Architecture

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i5-8350U
    ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
    MarketMobilevsMobile
    Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
    CodenameRaven RidgevsKaby Lake
    Release DateOct 2017vsSep 2017

    Cores

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i5-8350U
    Cores4vs4
    Threads8vs8
    SMPs1vs1
    Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 8vsIntel UHD 620

    Cache

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i5-8350U
    L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
    L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
    L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

    Physical

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i5-8350U
    SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel BGA1356
    Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
    PackageFP5vs FC-BGA1356
    Die Size210mm²vsunknown
    Process14 nmvs14 nm

    Performance

    AMD Ryzen 5 2500UIntel Core i5-8350U
    Cpu Frequency2000 MHzvs1700 MHz
    Turbo Clock3600 MHzvs3600 MHz
    Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
    Voltageunknownvsunknown
    TDP15 Wvs15 W

    Raw performance index

    Raw single-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      3960 points
    • Intel Core i5-8350U
      4320 points

    Points - higher is better

    Raw multi-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      10736 points
    • Intel Core i5-8350U
      9792 points

    Points - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      138
    • Intel Core i5-8350U (simulated)
      154.59

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
      614
    • Intel Core i5-8350U (simulated)
      496.78

    points - higher is better

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