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Price and performance details for the Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz can be found below. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
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Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA1155
Clockspeed: 3.3 GHz
Turbo Speed: 3.7 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 4
Typical TDP: 95 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz, Intel Core i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2010
CPUmark/$Price: 90.55
Overall Rank:
1997th fastest in multithreading out of 4757 CPUs
1864th fastest in single threading out of 4757 CPUs
574th fastest in out of 1368 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $45.48 USD (2023-06-01)
Integer Math | 14,468 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 7,397 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 26 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 9,024 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 1,039 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 67,000 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 354 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 3,589 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 1,697 MOps/Sec |
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,260 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,472 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,156 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,622 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,043 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,898 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,287 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,755 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,537 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,177 | |
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 4,118 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
---|---|---|
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 236.83 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 168.46 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 167.33 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 150.53 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 134.68 | |
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 90.55 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.65 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 55.42 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,630 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,166 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,033 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,921 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,697 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,360 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,930 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,567 | |
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 1,697 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2144460 - Jul 13 2024 | 2616 | |
BL2143673 - Jul 12 2024 | 4297 | |
BL2141884 - Jul 10 2024 [Overclocked] | 5029 | |
BL2136758 - Jul 03 2024 | 4421 | |
BL2134031 - Jun 29 2024 | 4347 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 4,118 | |
AMD FX-6100 Six-Core vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,682 (-10.6%) | |
Intel Core i5-2310 @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,645 (-11.5%) | |
Intel Core i5-2500S @ 2.70GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,398 (-17.5%) | |
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,318 (-19.4%) | |
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,188 (-22.6%) | |
AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 2,242 (-45.5%) | |
Intel Core i5-4460 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,887 (+18.7%) | |
AMD FX-6350 Six-Core vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,546 (+10.4%) | |
Intel Core i3-7100 @ 3.90GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,326 (+5.1%) | |
AMD Athlon X4 845 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,797 (-7.8%) | |
Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,515 (-14.6%) | |
Intel Core i3-4150 @ 3.50GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,392 (-17.6%) |
Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,335 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,273 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,030 | |
Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,525 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,388 | |
Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,112 | |
Intel Core i9-14900KF | 8,009 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,884 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,790 | |
Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,746 | |
Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,536 | |
Intel Core i7-14700KF | 7,536 | |
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 823 |