Intel Core i5-1135G7 vs Intel Core i5-2500

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 808.99
$ 135.87
$ 673.12 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2976 points
50% significantly better overall score
1975 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5093 points
39% slightly better gaming score
3663 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2371 points
57% significantly better multitasking score
1502 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2270 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score
1441 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

53.33 points
103% significantly higher Blender score
26.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4557 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1687 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1587 points
177% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
571 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4495 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1692 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1592 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
592 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.3 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

540th of 1,089
725th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-1135G7 vs Core i5-2500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1135G7 is faster than the Core i5-2500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-1135G7 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1135G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1135G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-1135G7 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 i5-1135G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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