Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i5-750

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Price

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$ 135.87
$ 39.97
$ 95.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points
43% significantly better overall score
1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points
44% significantly better gaming score
2543 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points
42% slightly better multitasking score
1054 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score
1012 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
19.06 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1687 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1235 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

571 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
431 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1182 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
423 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
Identical
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

743rd of 1,120
867th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-2500 vs Core i5-750 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500 is faster than the Core i5-750. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-750 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-750. Also, the Core i5-2500 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. For instance, the Core i5-2500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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