AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i7-970

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket FP5 Intel Socket 1366
Foundry GlobalFoundries Intel
Process size 14 nm 32 nm
Transistors unknown 1,170 million
Die size 246 mm² 239 mm²
Package FC-LGA10

Performance

Frequency 2000 MHz 3.2 GHz
Turbo clock up to 3.6 GHz up to 3.466 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 133 MHz
Multiplier 20.0x 24.0x
Multiplier unlocked No No
TDP 15 W 130 W
Voltage 1.3 V

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Mobile Desktop
Production status Active End-of-life
Release date Oct 26th, 2017 Jul 19th, 2010
Codename Raven Ridge Gulftown
Generation Ryzen 5 Core i7
Part unknown SLBVF
Memory support DDR4 Dual-channel DDR3 Triple-channel
ECC memory No No
PCI Express Gen 2

Cores

Total Cores 4 6
Total Threads 8 12
SMP # CPUs 1 1
Integrated graphics Radeon Vega 8

Cache

Cache L1 128K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 4MB (shared) 12MB (shared)

Features & Technologies

AES Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes
AVX2 Yes
BMI1 Yes
BMI2 Yes
EVP Yes
F16C Yes
FMA3 Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
Precision Boost Yes
SHA Yes
SMAP Yes
SMEP Yes
SMT Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes

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