Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i7-3632QM

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Intel Core i7-3632QM

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 36.40 slightly less expensive

$ 169.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

9% slightly better overall score

2124 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

23% slightly better gaming score

3467 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1661 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

30.63 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1650 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

512 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1722 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

510 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% 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

700th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2012 August

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 i7-3632QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500K is faster than the Core i7-3632QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3632QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3632QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3632QM. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3632QM 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.