Intel Core i5-2400 vs Intel Core i5-2500

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Intel Core i5-2500

Price

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$ 60.50

$ 75.37 significantly less expensive

$ 135.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1911 points

1975 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3500 points

3663 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1462 points

1502 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

1441 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.55 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

26.26 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1612 points

1687 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

550 points

571 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1606 points

1692 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

551 points

592 points

7% 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

3.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% 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

737th of 1,089

725th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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 i5-2400 vs Core i5-2500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2400 performs better than the Core i5-2500. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2400. 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.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.