Intel Core i5-2520M vs Intel Pentium 4415U

Core i5-2520M vs Pentium 4415U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2520M is faster than the Pentium 4415U. Despite this, the Pentium 4415U 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. The Pentium 4415U outputs less heat than Core i5-2520M thanks to a 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.