Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Core i5-2500 vs Core 2 Duo E8400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500 beats the Core 2 Duo E8400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8400. The Core 2 Duo E8400 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.