Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Celeron G550

Core i5-2500 vs Celeron G550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Celeron G550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-2500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Celeron G550 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Celeron G550. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G550. The Celeron G550 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500 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. For instance, the Core i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.