Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i5-3570

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Intel Core i5-3570

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 56.67 significantly less expensive

$ 190.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

7% slightly better overall score

2165 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

7% slightly better gaming score

3984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1654 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1587 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

2830 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

31.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

1923 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

657 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

1926 points

0.84% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

656 points

0.92% 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

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

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

690th 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 i5-3570 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500K beats the Core i5-3570 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3570 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3570 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.