AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7 8557U
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2017
Jul 2019
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Laptop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Raven Ridge
Coffee Lake
Integrated Graphics
Radeon Vega 8
Iris Plus Graphics 645
Processor Number
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i7-8557U
Package
Transistor Count
4.9 billions
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Manufacturing Process
14 nm
14 nm
Socket
FP5
BGA-1528
Power Consumption
15 W
15 W
Peak Operating Temperature
95 °C
100 °C
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
4
4
Performance Core Threads
8
8
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.0 GHz
1.7 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.6 GHz
4.5 GHz
Total Core Count
4
4
Total Thread Count
8
8
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
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Multiplier
20x
17x
L1 Cache
128 K per core
32 K per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
256 K per core
L3 Cache
4 MB shared
8 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2400
DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133
Max Memory Size
32 GB
32 GB
Max Memory Channels
2
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
35.76 GB/s
37.5 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
true
true
GPU Base Frequency
300 MHz
300 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
1100 MHz
1150 MHz
Shader Units
512
384
Texture Units
32
48
Raster Operation Units
8
6
Execution Units
8
48
Power Consumption
65 W
15 W
Max Resolution
3840x2160 - 60 Hz
4096x2304 - 60 Hz
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
3.0
3.0
PCIe Lanes
12
16
Extended Instruction Set
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SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
796
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Cinebench R23
2,861
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Geekbench 6
1,025
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Geekbench 5
781
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Geekbench 6
2,649
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Geekbench 5
2,722
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Blender
41
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Passmark CPU
1,807
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Passmark CPU
6,483
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.