Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i7-4910MQ

Core i5-2500 vs Core i7-4910MQ benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4910MQ is faster than the Core i5-2500. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4910MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4910MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4910MQ 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.

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.