Intel Core i5-5200U vs Intel Core i5-3230M

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-3230M

Price

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$ 1486.00

$ 99.99

$ 1386.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1041 points

1086 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2025 points

2128 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

779 points

812 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

748 points

780 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.12 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

17.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1480 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

763 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

523 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1512 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1017 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

785 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

505 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

2.20 GHz

2.6 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

3.2 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

937th of 1,089

927th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i5

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2013 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-5200U vs Core i5-3230M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3230M beats the Core i5-5200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5200U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-5200U. Also, the Core i5-3230M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-5200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3230M CPU because of its 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. Indeed, the Core i5-5200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.