Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U vs Core 2 Duo T5900

Primary details

Comparing Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated1352
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
SeriesIntel Core 2 DuoAMD Ryzen 5
Architecture codenameMerom (2006−2008)Zen (2017−2020)
Release date1 October 2008 (15 years ago)8 January 2018 (6 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 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 cores2 (Dual-core)4 (Quad-Core)
Threads28
Base clock speedno data2 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz2 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
Multiplierno data20
L1 cache128 KB384 KB
L2 cache2 MB2 MB
L3 cacheno data4 MB
Chip lithography65 nm14 nm
Die sizeno data209.78 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data105 °C
Number of transistorsno data4950 Million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility--

Compatibility

Information on Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 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 configurationno data1 (Uniprocessor)
SocketSocket PAM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataXFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
AMT+no data
Precision Boost 2no data+

Security technologies

Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4 Dual-channel
Maximum memory sizeno data32 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Core 2 Duo T5900 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


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.

Core 2 Duo T5900 652
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 6638
+918%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Core 2 Duo T5900 273
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 877
+221%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Core 2 Duo T5900 466
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 2567
+451%

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.

Core 2 Duo T5900 2123
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 4349
+105%

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.

Core 2 Duo T5900 3997
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 14336
+259%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Core 2 Duo T5900 1864
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U 5635
+202%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2008 8 January 2018
Physical cores 2 4
Threads 2 8
Chip lithography 65 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 15 Watt

Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U has an age advantage of 9 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, a 364.3% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

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