Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 133.55
$ 156.40 significantly less expensive
$ 289.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points
12% slightly better overall score
2075 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points
29% slightly better gaming score
3306 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1711 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1645 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points
44.49 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points
2821 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points
919 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points
2949 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points
956 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 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
37 W
156% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
707th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2013 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

No
No

Core i5-2500K vs Core i7-4702MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500K is faster than the Core i7-4702MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4702MQ has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. Also, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4702MQ 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.

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