AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Pentium Silver N5000. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Pentium
• Generation
  1 9
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 2000U Intel Pentium J5000/N5000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.00 GHz 1.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.60 GHz 2.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  3.00 GHz 2.70 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics Intel UHD Graphics 605
• GPU frequency
  1.10 GHz 0.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 0.75 GHz
• Execution units
  8 18
• Shader
  512 144
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 9.5
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q4/2017

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Silver N5000 and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 6

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and Intel Pentium Silver N5000 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 6 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen) Gemini Lake
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 BGA 1090
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q4/2017