Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i5-3450

Core i5-2500K vs Core i5-3450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500K beats the Core i5-3450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3450 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 Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3450. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3450 outputs less heat than Core i5-2500K thanks to a slightly 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 i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.