Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i7-3610QM

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Intel Core i7-3610QM

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 56.40 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

28% slightly better overall score

1810 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

43% significantly better gaming score

2981 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1464 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1405 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

37.63 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1794 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

531 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1836 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

539 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

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

756th 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 i7-3610QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3610QM is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Despite this, the Core i5-2500K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3610QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3610QM. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3610QM outputs less heat than Core i5-2500K thanks to a significantly 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.