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AMD Ryzen 3 4300U vs Intel Core i5-2500

Last updated: 2026-07-05

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 3 4300U

Rank 2 - 58 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 3 4300U

Rank 2 - 68 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

1,340

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

3,140

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

1,058

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

2,655

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 (Renoir)

896

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
Family	AMD Ryzen 3 (34)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 4000U (11)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	Renoir (Zen 2)	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	7 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	FP6	LGA 1155
Predecessor	AMD Ryzen 3 3300U
Successor	AMD Ryzen 3 5300U

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	2.70 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.70 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.70 GHz
L2-Cache	2.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
GPU name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 (Renoir)	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency	0.40 - 1.40 GHz	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	5 / 320	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	7 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
Memory	LPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 12	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	11.8 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
TDP	15 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 4300U	Intel Core i5-2500
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q1/2020	Q1/2011
Release price
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 3 4300U is 3.9 stars (17 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2500 has received 4.3 stars (28 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-2500
4C / 4T · 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★