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Ryzen 5 2500X

Average Bench: 72.2% (288th of 1323)

Based on 1,626 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00800F82 Model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500X Quad-Core Processor
Poor: 59%Average: 72.2% Great: 81%
Gaming
Gaming 72%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 76%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 61%
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Good average bench

The AMD Ryzen 5 2500X averaged 27.8% 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. Single Core Mixed Speed 109Pts
Avg. Memory Latency 77Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 5 2500X is 22%. 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 587Pts
Avg. Octa Core Mixed Speed 580Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,626 samples)
Rank 28872.2%
Min Avg Max
66.7 Memory 77 84.2
83.6 1-Core 109 118
154 2-Core 207 233
75.6% 131 Pts
Min Avg Max
273 4-Core 363 436
411 8-Core 580 660
60% 472 Pts
Min Avg Max
442 64-Core 587 658
39.4% 587 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 3.9 GHz (avg)
78.3% Very good
Memory 77.2
1-Core 116
2-Core 229
80% 141 Pts
4-Core 427
8-Core 667
70% 547 Pts
64-Core 658
44% 658 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg)
74.3% Very good
Memory 77.5
1-Core 115
2-Core 222
79% 138 Pts
4-Core 382
8-Core 639
65% 511 Pts
64-Core 635
43% 635 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
73.3% Very good
Memory 76.2
1-Core 113
2-Core 228
79% 139 Pts
4-Core 379
8-Core 604
63% 491 Pts
64-Core 612
41% 612 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg)
72.7% Very good
Memory 76.9
1-Core 112
2-Core 214
77% 135 Pts
4-Core 370
8-Core 583
61% 476 Pts
64-Core 598
40% 598 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg)
71.6% Very good
Memory 78
1-Core 104
2-Core 196
73% 126 Pts
4-Core 352
8-Core 564
58% 458 Pts
64-Core 613
41% 613 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg)
70.1% Very good
Memory 73.5
1-Core 113
2-Core 224
77% 137 Pts
4-Core 359
8-Core 540
58% 450 Pts
64-Core 530
36% 530 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg)
69.2% Good
Memory 77.6
1-Core 103
2-Core 190
72% 123 Pts
4-Core 328
8-Core 493
53% 411 Pts
64-Core 596
40% 596 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 48,528,079 CPUs tested.

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Gaming
Gaming 43%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 78%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 37%
Jet ski

System: Acer Nitro N50-100

CPU
Ryzen 5 2500XAMDBench 72%, 1,626 samples195x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,248,299 samples101x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 31%, 861,418 samples50x
RX 580AMD  $260Bench 54%, 776,865 samples20x
SSD
RBUSNS8154P3256GJ1 256GBKingstonBench 104%, 12,414 samples72x
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel  $130Bench 115%, 50,658 samples32x
PC SN520 SDAPNUW-128G-1014 128GBWDCBench 103%, 2,145 samples16x
RAM
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 1x8GBHynixBench 44%, 9,559 samples53x
ACR26D4U9S8ME-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 2,564 samples36x
4ATF51264AZ-2G6E1 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 12GBMicronBench 58%, 96 samples32x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 47% - Average Total price: $290

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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.

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Excellent

11 days ago.

MY Brother has it and he is BULLING ME

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