Intel Core i3-7350K vs Intel Core i5-2500

Core i3-7350K vs Core i5-2500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-2500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-7350K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7350K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2500. A Core i3-7350K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.