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Ryzen 5 2500X

Average Bench: 71.7% (291st of 1316)

Based on 1,420 user benchmarks.  Device: 178BFBFF00800F82 Model: AMD Ryzen 5 2500X Quad-Core Processor
Poor: 57%Average: 71.7% 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 28.2% 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 76.8Pts

Good consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the AMD Ryzen 5 2500X is 24.4%. 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 581Pts
Avg. Octa Core Mixed Speed 575Pts
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Average Bench

(Based on 1,420 samples)
Rank 29171.7%
Min Avg Max
65.4 Memory 76.8 84.3
82.6 1-Core 109 118
145 2-Core 206 233
75.3% 130 Pts
Min Avg Max
245 4-Core 359 436
370 8-Core 575 660
59.4% 467 Pts
Min Avg Max
416 64-Core 581 659
39% 581 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 3.8 GHz (avg)
76.2% Very good
Memory 76.8
1-Core 115
2-Core 213
78% 135 Pts
4-Core 407
8-Core 634
67% 521 Pts
64-Core 625
42% 625 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg)
76.1% Very good
Memory 82
1-Core 116
2-Core 235
82% 144 Pts
4-Core 378
8-Core 658
65% 518 Pts
64-Core 649
44% 649 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg)
75.6% Very good
Memory 81.6
1-Core 116
2-Core 207
79% 135 Pts
4-Core 375
8-Core 635
64% 505 Pts
64-Core 635
43% 635 Pts
AM4, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg)
59.5% Above average
Memory 66.5
1-Core 80.7
2-Core 155
59% 101 Pts
4-Core 284
8-Core 451
47% 367 Pts
64-Core 429
29% 429 Pts
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The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 45,036,608 CPUs tested.

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Gaming
Gaming 43%
Speed boat
Desktop
Desktop 78%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 37%
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System: Acer Nitro N50-100

CPU
Ryzen 5 2500XAMDBench 72%, 1,420 samples178x
GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,217,004 samples91x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia  $155Bench 31%, 810,808 samples44x
RX 580AMD  $220Bench 54%, 707,004 samples20x
SSD
RBUSNS8154P3256GJ1 256GBKingstonBench 104%, 11,614 samples68x
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel  $169Bench 119%, 54,347 samples31x
PC SN520 SDAPNUW-128G-1014 128GBWDCBench 101%, 2,003 samples16x
RAM
HMA81GU6CJR8N-VK 1x8GBHynixBench 44%, 8,698 samples48x
ACR26D4U9S8ME-8 1x8GBKingstonBench 43%, 2,270 samples34x
4ATF51264AZ-2G6E1 8ATF1G64AZ-2G6E1 12GBMicronBench 58%, 87 samples29x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 46% - 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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Terrible

2 years ago.

MY Brother has it and he is BULLING ME

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