Athlon 300U vs Ryzen 5 2500U

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Aggregate performance score

Ryzen 5 2500U
2017
4 cores / 8 threads, 15 Watt
4.11
+69.1%
Athlon 300U
2019
2 cores / 4 threads, 15 Watt
2.43

Ryzen 5 2500U outperforms Athlon 300U by an impressive 69% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking14021771
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5AMD Athlon
Power efficiency25.9315.33
Architecture codenameRaven Ridge (2017−2018)Raven Ridge 2 (2019)
Release date26 October 2017 (7 years ago)6 January 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads84
Base clock speed2 GHz2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2 GHz3.3 GHz
Bus typeno dataPCIe 3.0
Multiplier2024
L1 cache384 KB192 KB
L2 cache2 MB1 MB
L3 cache4 MB (shared)4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size209.78 mm2209.78 mm2
Number of transistors4950 Million4940 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP5FP5
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMTXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI++
AVX++
Precision Boost 2+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4-2400DDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory size32 GB64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth38.397 GB/s38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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AMD Radeon Vega 8AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 ( - 1000 MHz)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 2500U and Athlon 300U.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes1212

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 5 2500U 4.11
+69.1%
Athlon 300U 2.43

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 5 2500U 6536
+69%
Athlon 300U 3867

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 5 2500U 4411
+11.2%
Athlon 300U 3968

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 5 2500U 15684
+79.8%
Athlon 300U 8724

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Ryzen 5 2500U 10.23
+50.9%
Athlon 300U 15.44

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 5 2500U 609
+97.7%
Athlon 300U 308

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 5 2500U 137
+15.1%
Athlon 300U 119

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 5 2500U 3.3
+73.7%
Athlon 300U 1.9

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 5 2500U 2426
+49.4%
Athlon 300U 1623

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 5 2500U 35
+87.6%
Athlon 300U 19

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 5 2500U 121
+36.6%
Athlon 300U 89

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 5 2500U 2515
+36.7%
Athlon 300U 1840

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 5 2500U 831
Athlon 300U 867
+4.3%

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 5 2500U 160
+11.9%
Athlon 300U 143

Geekbench 3 32-bit multi-core

Ryzen 5 2500U 11301
+84.2%
Athlon 300U 6134

Geekbench 3 32-bit single-core

Ryzen 5 2500U 3383
+15.9%
Athlon 300U 2919

Geekbench 2

Ryzen 5 2500U 10616
+54.6%
Athlon 300U 6868

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit multi-core

Ryzen 5 2500U 9548
+65.7%
Athlon 300U 5763

Geekbench 4.0 64-bit single-core

Ryzen 5 2500U 3582
+11.5%
Athlon 300U 3213

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 4.11 2.43
Integrated graphics card 4.51 2.98
Recency 26 October 2017 6 January 2019
Physical cores 4 2
Threads 8 4

Ryzen 5 2500U has a 69.1% higher aggregate performance score, 51.3% faster integrated GPU, and 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads.

Athlon 300U, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

The Ryzen 5 2500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Athlon 300U in performance tests.


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