Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Core i5-650

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Intel Core i5-650

Price

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$ 69.00

$ 66.40

$ 2.60 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

979 points

1013 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1873 points

2051 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

738 points

747 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

708 points

716 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.81 points

15.60 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

915 points

0.77% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

908 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

462 points

0.87% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

458 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

929 points

943 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

467 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

3.46 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

108% significantly lower TDP

73 W

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

16 GiB

38 GiB

137% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

955th of 1,089

943rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2520M vs Core i5-650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2520M beats the Core i5-650 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2520M. Also, the Core i5-650 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-2520M CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-2520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.