AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-2500K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-2500K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2500K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.