As fast as a Core i5-8250U but with more than double the graphics performance, the Ryzen 5 2500U is launching with just the momentum AMD needs in the notebook space.

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The HP Envy x360 15 and x360 13 were some of the first notebooks announced to ship with AMD's new Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 Mobile series of processors. While the Ryzen 7 SKUs are still nowhere to be found, the Ryzen 5 SKUs are now readily available as promised by the manufacturer. Our data below is a preview of the quad-core Ryzen 5 2500U in the new Envy x360 15 with the full review to come in the following week. The numbers represent our first set of in-house data for this particular processor and we were eager to get some direct comparisons against Intel's Kaby Lake and Kaby Lake-R family of processors.

Before diving into raw benchmark scores, we wanted to see if the Ryzen 5 processor will throttle when subjected to long periods of extreme processing load. Running CineBench R15 Multi-Thread in a loop results in no significant performance degradation over time to confirm that the processor shouldn't suffer from any temperature ceiling or TJMax alarms when gaming or browsing. The small-but-measurable 3 percent dip from the first run (579 points) to the second run (561 points) is a drop in the bucket compared to the 30+ percent decline from the i7-7660U in the Surface Pro tablet.

We are unable to provide core clock rates at this time since both HWiNFO64 and GPU-Z are outputting incorrect readings for the Ryzen 5 APU. We will continue to test out additional monitoring programs for the final Envy x360 15 review.