Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i5-3470

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Intel Core i5-3470

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 83.84 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

15% slightly better overall score

2020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3714 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1543 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

1482 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2692 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

30.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1862 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

620 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1843 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

622 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% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

712th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500K vs Core i5-3470 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500K beats the Core i5-3470 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3470 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 i5-3470. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3470 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.

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.