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

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 i5-14600KF

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 66.44 significantly less expensive

$ 199.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

11327 points

387% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

13381 points

212% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

10689 points

501% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

10570 points

520% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

10627 points

286% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

309.52 points

796% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

15636 points

718% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

2781 points

327% 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

655th of 1,092

64th of 1,092

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

Core i5-2500K vs Core i5-14600KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-14600KF beats the Core i5-2500K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-14600KF has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14600KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Core i5-14600KF has a significantly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.