Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core i5-2520M

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Intel Core i5-2520M

Price

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$ 74.02

$ 69.00

$ 5.02 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

3% slightly better overall score

979 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

708 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

12.81 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

915 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

462 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

929 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

467 points

3% 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

2.5 GHz

Identical

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 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

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

968th of 1,118

982nd of 1,118

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

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 i5-2450M vs Core i5-2520M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2450M is faster than the Core i5-2520M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Both the Core i5-2450M and Core i5-2520M have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-2520M 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. Indeed, the Core i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.