Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Core i5-2450M

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

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Intel Core i5-2450M

Price

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$ 51.80

$ 22.22 significantly less expensive

$ 74.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

996 points

1014 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2013 points

4% slightly better gaming score

1935 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

734 points

766 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

704 points

735 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.44 points

89% significantly higher Blender score

6.58 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

860 points

905 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

412 points

466 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

764 points

871 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

367 points

453 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.93 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W

35 W

108% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

38 GiB

137% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

949th of 1,089

942nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-530 vs Core i5-2450M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2450M beats the Core i3-530 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-530 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-530 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2450M. The Core i5-2450M outputs less heat than Core i3-530 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-530 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.