Intel Core i7-3537U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

830 points
862 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1588 points
1899 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

626 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
611 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

600 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
587 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.36 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
8.12 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

874 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
692 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

436 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
403 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

968 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
638 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
392 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.00 GHz
3.17 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

17 W
282% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
6 MiB
2299% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

996th of 1,089
987th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 February
2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-3537U vs Core 2 Duo E8500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 2 Duo E8500 is faster than the Core i7-3537U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3537U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3537U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3537U. A Core i7-3537U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3537U

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 i7-3537U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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