Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Intel Pentium E5200

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium E5200

Price

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$ 109.95

$ 45.00

$ 64.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

862 points

37% slightly better overall score

627 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1899 points

40% slightly better gaming score

1349 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

611 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

587 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

432 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.12 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

5.50 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

692 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

533 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

300 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

638 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

443 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

392 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

282 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.17 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

987th of 1,089

1,053rd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February

2008 August

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Pentium E5200 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Duo E8500 beats the Pentium E5200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium E5200 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium E5200. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium E5200

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.