Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i5-3470

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Intel Core i5-3470

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 81.52 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

2020 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

3714 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

1543 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

1482 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

30.09 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points

1862 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points

620 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

1843 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

622 points

5% 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

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

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

725th of 1,089

712th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500 vs Core i5-3470 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3470 performs better than the Core i5-2500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470. Also, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3470 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.