Intel Core i5-2500 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 965

Price

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$ 135.87

$ 64.02

$ 71.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

11% slightly better overall score

1773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

16.61 points

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

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

725th of 1,089

762nd of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500 vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2500 performs better than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500.

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.