Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i5-14600K

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14600K

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 151.24 significantly less expensive

$ 284.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

12025 points

417% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

14272 points

233% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

11307 points

536% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

11156 points

554% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

10606 points

285% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

303.53 points

779% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

16100 points

742% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

2838 points

336% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

250% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

400% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5.3 GHz

43% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

192 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

53rd of 1,089

Family

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Core

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-2500K vs Core i5-14600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14600K is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14600K has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-2500K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-14600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Core i5-14600K has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.