AMD A10-8700P vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD A AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  AMD A10-8000 AMD Ryzen 2000U

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
  1.80 GHz 2.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.60 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Turbo (4 Cores)
  3.20 GHz 3.00 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• 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 R6 (Kaveri) AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  0.80 GHz 1.10 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6 8
• Shader
  384 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 2 GB
• Max. displays
  2 3
• Generation
  6 8
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q1/2018

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and AMD A10-8700P. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-2133 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD A10-8700P and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W
• TDP up
  12 W 25 W
• TDP down
  35 W 12 W
• Tjunction max.
  90 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD A10-8700P and AMD A10-8700P, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Carizzo (Excavator) Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Technology
  28 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM1 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2015 Q4/2017