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Is the Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
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: 137.27
Overall Rank:
2040th fastest in multithreading out of 4830 CPUs
1907th fastest in single threading out of 4830 CPUs
587th fastest in out of 1380 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $29.99 USD (2024-08-02)
| Integer Math | 14,459 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 7,392 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 26 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 9,013 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 1,039 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 66,929 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 354 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 3,585 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 1,698 MOps/Sec |
| Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 59,134 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,491 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,128 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,611 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,888 | |
| Apple M1 Pro 10 Core 3200 MHz | 21,866 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,275 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,750 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,539 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,170 | |
| Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 4,117 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 219.17 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 182.42 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 157.54 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 149.88 | |
| Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 137.27 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 133.84 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.62 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 57.11 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Pro 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,624 | |
| Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,164 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,030 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,910 | |
| Apple M1 Pro 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,806 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,693 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,469 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,360 | |
| Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,929 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,567 | |
| Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 1,698 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL2183421 - Aug 31 2024 | 3451 | |
| BL2182687 - Aug 30 2024 | 4129 | |
| BL2179158 - Aug 26 2024 | 3216 | |
| BL2178219 - Aug 25 2024 [Overclocked] | 5660 | |
| BL2177603 - Aug 24 2024 | 4405 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 4,117 | |
| Intel Core i5-2320 @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,663 (-11.0%) | |
| AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,321 (-19.3%) | |
| AMD A8-7600 APU vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,220 (-21.8%) | |
| Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,675 (+13.6%) | |
| AMD FX-6300 Six-Core vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,209 (+2.3%) | |
| Intel Core i5-2500 @ 3.30GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 4,118 (+0.0%) | |
| AMD Athlon X4 845 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,791 (-7.9%) | |
| AMD Athlon X4 950 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,591 (-12.8%) | |
| AMD A10-9700 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,551 (-13.7%) | |
| Intel Core i5-2300 @ 2.80GHz vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,428 (-16.7%) | |
| AMD Phenom II X4 840 vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 2,399 (-41.7%) | |
| AMD Athlon X4 870K vs Intel Core i5-2500K | 3,410 (-17.2%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 9,269 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KS | 9,235 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 9,034 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900KS | 8,498 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 8,393 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900K | 8,093 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900KF | 7,972 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D | 7,842 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900K | 7,780 | |
| Intel Core i7-13790F | 7,746 | |
| Intel Core i7-14700K | 7,529 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | 7,522 | |
| Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz | 823 |
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