Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-5600U

Price

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$ 74.02

$ 2358.98 significantly less expensive

$ 2433.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

1056 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

2095 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

783 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

750 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

26.29 points

299% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

1705 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

875 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

1765 points

102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

926 points

104% significantly 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

2.6 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

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

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

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

942nd of 1,089

933rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

5th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2450M vs Core i7-5600U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5600U beats the Core i5-2450M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2450M 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 i7-5600U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2450M. Also, the Core i7-5600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-5600U outputs less heat than Core i5-2450M thanks to a 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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.