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Ryzen 5 2500X

Average Bench: 73.2% (235th of 1265)

Based on 1,031 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00800F82 Model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500X Quad-Core Processor
Poor: 60%Average: 73.2% Great: 82%
Gaming
Gaming 73%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 77%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 62%
Destroyer

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Good average bench

The AMD Ryzen 5 2500X averaged 26.7% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Memory Latency 78.1Pts
Avg. Single Core Mixed Speed 110Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 5 2500X is 21.7%. This is a relatively narrow range which indicates that the AMD Ryzen 5 2500X performs reasonably consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Multi Core Mixed Speed 600Pts
Avg. Octa Core Mixed Speed 589Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,031 samples)
Rank 23573.2%
Min Avg Max
66.4 Memory 78.1 86.3
81.8 1-Core 110 118
147 2-Core 209 235
76.4% 132 Pts
Min Avg Max
278 4-Core 368 445
444 8-Core 589 657
60.9% 479 Pts
Min Avg Max
484 64-Core 600 656
40.3% 600 Pts
User Benchmarks Bench Normal Heavy Server
The fastest CPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
80.3% Excellent
Memory 80.9
1-Core 117
2-Core 229
81% 142 Pts
4-Core 435
8-Core 586
67% 511 Pts
64-Core 636
43% 636 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
75.9% Very good
Memory 80.5
1-Core 116
2-Core 230
81% 142 Pts
4-Core 384
8-Core 629
64% 506 Pts
64-Core 629
42% 629 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg)
75.4% Very good
Memory 78.6
1-Core 116
2-Core 233
81% 142 Pts
4-Core 388
8-Core 651
66% 520 Pts
64-Core 646
43% 646 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg)
72.4% Very good
Memory 78.9
1-Core 107
2-Core 200
75% 129 Pts
4-Core 356
8-Core 520
57% 438 Pts
64-Core 610
41% 610 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg)
70.5% Very good
Memory 73.7
1-Core 113
2-Core 218
77% 135 Pts
4-Core 362
8-Core 629
62% 495 Pts
64-Core 614
41% 614 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg)
65.1% Good
Memory 74.4
1-Core 79.1
2-Core 136
59% 96.5 Pts
4-Core 301
8-Core 531
52% 416 Pts
64-Core 559
38% 559 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 33,602,844 CPUs tested.

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Gaming
Gaming 44%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 79%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 38%
Jet ski

System: Acer Nitro N50-100

CPU
Ryzen 5 2500XAMDBench 73%, 1,031 samples89x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $267Bench 57%, 964,131 samples39x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $145Bench 32%, 631,512 samples25x
RX 580AMD  $170Bench 57%, 521,268 samples16x
SSD
RBUSNS8154P3256GJ1 256GBKingstonBench 107%, 6,757 samples34x
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel  $147Bench 120%, 39,586 samples15x
PC SN520 SDAPNUW-128G-1014 128GBWDCBench 106%, 1,073 samples8x
RAM
ACR26D4U9S8ME-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 44%, 1,420 samples20x
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 1x8GBHynixBench 43%, 5,966 samples20x
4ATF51264AZ-2G6E1 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 12GBMicronBench 58%, 53 samples15x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 51% - Above average Total price: $267

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AMD are great at selling junk. They pee in the well with fake comments, glorified cheerleaders on youtube and paid magazine reviews. My POS PC still crashes randomly. Everybody needs to call the rats out instead of letting them get away with it.

NOR-User
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Terrible

16 months ago.

MY Brother has it and he is BULLING ME

GamingEliot
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Average

15 months ago.

This exists?

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Average

14 months ago.

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