Intel Core i5-2500K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 133.55

$ 74.99

$ 58.56 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2325 points

5931 points

155% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4281 points

7969 points

86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1776 points

5267 points

196% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1704 points

5102 points

199% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2748 points

5451 points

98% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.51 points

141.88 points

311% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1893 points

7589 points

300% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

629 points

1833 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1910 points

7653 points

300% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

650 points

1872 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

654th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2500K vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 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.