Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U vs Pentium M 745
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U outperforms Pentium M 745 by a whopping 2094% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 3528 | 1613 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Laptop | Laptop |
| Series | Pentium M | AMD Ryzen 5 |
| Power efficiency | 0.34 | 10.58 |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Manufacturer | Intel | GlobalFoundries |
| Architecture codename | Dothan (2004−2005) | Raven Ridge (2017−2019) |
| Release date | 10 May 2004 (21 years ago) | 8 January 2019 (6 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Pentium M 745 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 cores | 1 (Single-Core) | 4 (Quad-Core) |
| Threads | 1 | 8 |
| Base clock speed | 1.8 GHz | 2 GHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1.8 GHz | 3.6 GHz |
| Bus rate | 400 MHz | no data |
| Multiplier | no data | 20 |
| L1 cache | 32 KB | 96 KB (per core) |
| L2 cache | 2 MB | 512 KB (per core) |
| L3 cache | 0 KB | 4 MB (shared) |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Die size | 87 mm2 | 246 mm2 |
| Maximum core temperature | 100 °C | 105 °C |
| Number of transistors | 144 million | 4950 Million |
| 64 bit support | - | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| VID voltage range | 1.276V-1.34V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Pentium M 745 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 configuration | 1 | 1 (Uniprocessor) |
| Socket | H-PBGA479,PPGA478 | FP5 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7.5 Watt | 15 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium M 745 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT |
| AES-NI | - | + |
| AVX | - | + |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | no data |
| Idle States | - | no data |
| Demand Based Switching | - | no data |
| FSB parity | - | no data |
| Precision Boost 2 | no data | + |
Security technologies
Pentium M 745 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium M 745 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U are enumerated here.
| AMD-V | - | + |
| VT-x | - | no data |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium M 745 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR2 | DDR4 Dual-channel |
| Maximum memory size | no data | 32 GB |
| Max memory channels | no data | 2 |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | no data | 38.397 GB/s |
| ECC memory support | - | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.
| Integrated graphics card | On certain motherboards (Chipset feature) | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) ( - 1100 MHz) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium M 745 and Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U.
| PCIe version | no data | 3.0 |
| PCI Express lanes | no data | 12 |
Synthetic benchmarks
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.
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.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 0.17 | 3.73 |
| Recency | 10 May 2004 | 8 January 2019 |
| Physical cores | 1 | 4 |
| Threads | 1 | 8 |
| Chip lithography | 90 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 7 Watt | 15 Watt |
Pentium M 745 has 114.3% lower power consumption.
Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U, on the other hand, has a 2094.1% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 14 years, 300% more physical cores and 700% more threads, and a 542.9% more advanced lithography process.
The AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Intel Pentium M 745 in performance tests.
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