Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i7-9850HL

Core i5-2500 vs Core i7-9850HL benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9850HL performs better than the Core i5-2500. Despite this, the Core i5-2500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850HL has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850HL. Despite this, the Core i7-9850HL has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850HL 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.