Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Core i5-2500

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Intel Core i5-2500

Price

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$ 141.67

$ 135.87

$ 5.80 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1844 points

1975 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3371 points

3663 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1414 points

1502 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1357 points

1441 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

26.26 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1527 points

1687 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

530 points

571 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points

1692 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

592 points

10% 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

3 GHz

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

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

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

751st of 1,089

725th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 August

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2320 vs Core i5-2500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Core i5-2320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2320 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2320. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.