Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Xeon E3-1225 V2

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1975 points

0.97% slightly better overall score

1956 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3663 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3586 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1502 points

0.40% slightly better multitasking score

1496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1441 points

0.35% slightly better heavy workload score

1436 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.26 points

33.16 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1692 points

1894 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

592 points

631 points

6% 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

3.19 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

741st of 1,115

743rd of 1,115

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 Xeon E3-1225 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500 beats the Xeon E3-1225 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1225 V2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1225 V2.

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.