Intel Core i5-2500 vs i5-3450
Mini Review
Intel Core i5-2500 advantages
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Intel Core i5-3450 advantages
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i5-2500 vs i5-3450 performance comparison
The charts below demonstrate relative performance of Core i5-2500 and Core i5-3450 processors in different types of programs. The numbers in the charts are calculated from a number of benchmarks, that you can see in the "Benchmarks" tab. For this reason the shown results may differ from results, that you may receive in individual tests. The 'Overall performance' displays an average of all-around performance benchmarks, and benchmarks, specific to each type of application. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Please see the "Benchmarks" tab for exhaustive list of benchmarks, showing performance difference between Intel i5-2500 and Intel Core i5-3450 in various types of applications.
i5-2500 vs i5-3450 power consumption comparison
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Detailed side by side comparison of Intel i5-2500 vs Intel Core i5-3450 specs can be found in the "Specifications" tab. Much more detailed comparison of internal features of both microprocessors you will find in the "CPUIDs" tab.
Pros and Cons summary
| Core i5-2500 | Core i5-3450 |
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General recommendations: Performs slightly faster in single-threaded tasks
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General recommendations: Insignificantly faster in all kinds of tasks,
Performs somewhat better in games and graphics programs, Supports F16C instructions, Somewhat more energy efficient |
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Drawbacks: Performs insignificantly worse in all types of applications,
Not as fast in graphics tasks, Does not support some instructions, Less energy efficient |
Drawbacks: Performs slightly worse in single-threaded applications
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Similar processors
| Core i5-2500 | Core i5-3450 |
Similar CPUs use the same socket and architecture as Intel i5-2500 and Intel i5-3450, but their performance and other characteristics are a bit different.
Specifications
| Intel Core i5-2500 | Intel Core i5-3450 | |
| Basic details | ||
| Market segment | Desktop | |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
| Family | Intel Core i5 | |
| Model number | i5-2500 | i5-3450 |
| CPU part number | CM8062300834203 | CM8063701159406 |
| Box part number | BX80623I52500 BXC80623I52500 | BX80637I53450 BXC80637I53450 |
| Introduction date | January 9, 2011 | April 23, 2012 |
| CPU features | ||
| Core name | Sandy Bridge | Ivy Bridge |
| Microarchitecture | Sandy Bridge | Ivy Bridge |
| Technology (micron) | 0.032 | 0.022 |
| Data width (bits) | 64 | |
| Socket | Socket 1155 | |
| Frequency (MHz) | 3300 | 3100 |
| Turbo Frequency (MHz) | 3700 | 3500 / 3500 / 3400 / 3300 |
| Clock Multiplier | 33 | 31 |
| L1 cache | 128 KB (code) / 128 KB (data) | |
| L2 cache (KB) | 1024 | |
| L3 cache (KB) | 6144 | |
| Max temperature (°C) | 72.6 | |
| TDP (Watt) | 95 | 77 |
| Cores | 4 | |
| Threads | 4 | |
| Multiprocessing | 1 | |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| AES / Advanced Encryption Standard | + | |
| AMD64 / EM64T 64-bit technology | + | |
| AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions | + | |
| F16C / 16-bit Floating-Point conversion | - | + |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | + | |
| SSE4.2 | + | |
| SSSE3 / Supplemental SSE3 | + | |
| Supported technologies | ||
| PowerNow! / Enhanced SpeedStep | + | |
| Trusted Execution | + | - |
| Turbo Core / Turbo Boost | + | |
| Virtualization | + | |
| Virus Protection / Execute Disable bit | + | |
| Integrated Graphics | ||
| GPU Type | HD 2000 | HD 2500 |
| Base frequency (MHz) | 850 | 650 |
| Maximum frequency (MHz) | 1100 | |
| Integrated Memory Controller(s) | ||
| The number of controllers | 1 | |
| Memory channels | 2 | |
| Supported memory | DDR3-1066 DDR3-1333 | DDR3-1333 DDR3-1600 |
Rows with different specifications or features are highlighted.
For detailed specifications of "Intel Core i5-2500" or "Intel Core i5-3450" parts please click on the links in the table header.
Benchmarks
System setup
Below is a partial set of Intel Core i5-2500 and i5-3450 benchmarks from our CPU benchmark database. Both microprocessors were tested on ASUS P8H61-M motherboard with 2 GB dual-channel Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9 DDR3 memory, and Integrated on-chip Intel Sandy Bridge graphics. For different system configurations please see tests of Core i5-2500 and i5-3450 CPUs in our benchmark database.
All tests were performed at default frequency and voltage, using manufacturer's stock fan/heatsink. None of the components were overclocked. Motherboard BIOS options were left at default settings.
The results of all benchmarks are broken into four categories: multi-threaded, single-threaded, memory intensive and graphics / gaming.
Core i5-2500 vs i5-3450 single-threaded benchmarks
Single-threaded benchmarks run on a single CPU core, and do not depend on such features as the number of cores, or Hyper-Threading technology. Additionally, they do not utilize on-chip caches, dedicated to other cores.
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
3DMark03 CPU score benchmark | ||
Longer is better  | ||
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| 100% | ||
| 99.4% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score (1 core) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.3% | ||
FLAC encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.5% | ||
H.264 video encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.9% | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.2% | ||
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
PCMark2002 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.0% | ||
Super PI (1M) benchmark | ||
 Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.0% | ||
XVid video encoding - single process benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.6% | ||
Core i5-2500 vs i5-3450 multi-threaded benchmarks
Multi-threaded benchmarks utilize all CPU cores and other on-chip resources (on-chip caches, internal buffers, etc). Intel's Hyper-Threading feature also helps to improve multi-threading performance.
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
3DMark06 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 97.1% | ||
Apache web server - dynamic pages benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 78.5% | ||
Apache web server - static pages benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.6% | ||
Blowfish encryption benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.7% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 95.1% | ||
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
CINEBENCH R10 render time (seconds) benchmark | ||
| Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.9% | ||
CrystalMark ALU benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 95.7% | ||
CrystalMark FPU benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.0% | ||
Euler3D benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.8% | ||
FLAC encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.9% | ||
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
Fritz Chess Benchmark benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 96.1% | ||
H.264 video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.3% | ||
H.264 video encoding - multithreaded benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.3% | ||
LAME MP3 encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.4% | ||
PCMark05 CPU score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.1% | ||
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
PCMark05 score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.1% | ||
Sandra Dhrystone (MIPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.7% | ||
Sandra MultiMedia Floating Point (it/s) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.8% | ||
Sandra MultiMedia Integer (it/s) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.6% | ||
Sandra Whetstone (MFLOPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 96.7% | ||
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
Sandra Whetstone SSE2 (MFLOPS) benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.1% | ||
XVid video encoding - multiple processes benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 97.0% | ||
wPrime v1.55 (32M) benchmark | ||
| Shorter is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 99.7% | ||
Core i5-2500 vs i5-3450 graphics benchmarks
Graphics benchmarks depend on the type of integrated or discrete graphics adapter, and to less extent on the processor performance. Because these benchmarks are synthetic, they may not truly represent gaming performance. However, they still can used to estimate whether one processor will perform faster or slower in games than another CPU.
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
3DMark03 game score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 79.0% | ||
3DMark06 3DMark score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 80.1% | ||
3DMark2001 score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 86.3% | ||
CINEBENCH R10 OpenGL score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 76.6% | ||
PCMark05 Graphics score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 74.9% | ||
Core i5-2500 vs i5-3450 memory performance
Memory-intensive tests or programs move large amounts of data to/from memory, and they depend more on memory throughput and the size of on-chip caches, rather than on CPU integer/FP/SIMD performance.
Intel Core i5-2500 Intel Core i5-3450 | ||
7Zip compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
|---|---|---|
| 100% | ||
| 98.2% | ||
CrystalMark Memory benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 91.3% | ||
PCMark05 Memory score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 79.1% | ||
PCMark2002 Memory score benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 98.8% | ||
WinRAR compressing/decompressing speed benchmark | ||
| Longer is better | ||
| 100% | ||
| 94.2% | ||
CPUIDs
The table below compares two random CPUID records for Intel Core i5-2500 and Intel Core i5-3450 microprocessors, that were submitted to our CPUID database. Please note that different steppings of Intel processors, identified by S-spec numbers or CPUID, may have slightly different features. For that reason the comparison table below only applies to CPUs with specific S-Spec number / CPUID.
| CPUID 1 | CPUID 2 | |
| Manufacturer | Intel | |
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| CPU Family | Core i5 | |
| Model / Processor Number | i5-2500 | i5-3450 |
| Frequency | 3310 MHz | 3481 MHz |
| CWID version | 0.4 | |
| Part number | CM8062300834203 | CM8063701159406 |
| S-Spec / Stepping Code | SR00T | SR0PF |
| General information | ||
| Vendor | GenuineIntel | |
| Processor name (BIOS) | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz |
| Cores | 4 | |
| Logical processors | 4 | |
| Processor type | Original OEM Processor | |
| CPUID signature | 206A7 | 306A9 |
| Family | 6 (06h) | |
| Model | 42 (02Ah) | 58 (03Ah) |
| Stepping | 7 (07h) | 9 (09h) |
| TLB/Cache details | 64-byte Prefetching Data TLB0: 2-MB or 4-MB pages, 4-way associative, 32 entries Data TLB: 4-KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries Instruction TLB: 4-KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 128 entries L2 TLB: 1-MB, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size Shared 2nd-level TLB: 4 KB pages, 4-way set associative, 512 entries | |
| Cache | ||
| L1 data: Associativity | 8-way set associative | |
| L1 data: Comments | Direct-mapped | |
| L1 data: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 data: Size | 4 x 32 KB | |
| L1 instruction: Associativity | 8-way set associative | |
| L1 instruction: Comments | Direct-mapped | |
| L1 instruction: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L1 instruction: Size | 4 x 32 KB | |
| L2: Associativity | 8-way set associative | |
| L2: Comments | Non-inclusive|Direct-mapped | |
| L2: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L2: Size | 4 x 256 KB | |
| L3: Associativity | 12-way set associative | |
| L3: Comments | Inclusive|Shared between all cores | |
| L3: Line size | 64 bytes | |
| L3: Size | 6 MB | |
| Instruction set extensions | ||
| AES | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| F16C | - | + |
| MMX | + | |
| SSE | + | |
| SSE2 | + | |
| SSE3 | + | |
| SSE4.1 | + | |
| SSE4.2 | + | |
| SSSE3 | + | |
| Additional instructions | ||
| CLFLUSH | + | |
| CMOV | + | |
| CMPXCHG16B | + | |
| CMPXCHG8B | + | |
| FXSAVE/FXRSTORE | + | |
| MONITOR/MWAIT | + | |
| PCLMULDQ | + | |
| POPCNT | + | |
| RDRAND | - | + |
| RDTSCP | + | |
| SYSENTER/SYSEXIT | + | |
| XSAVE / XRESTORE states | + | |
| Major features | ||
| 64-bit / Intel 64 | + | |
| Enhanced SpeedStep | + | |
| Intel Trusted Execution technology | + | - |
| Intel Virtualization | + | |
| NX bit/XD-bit | + | |
| On-chip Floating Point Unit | + | |
| Turbo Boost | + | |
| Other features | ||
| 36-bit page-size extensions | + | |
| 64-bit debug store | + | |
| Advanced programmable interrupt controller | + | |
| CPL qualified debug store | + | |
| Debug store | + | |
| Debugging extensions | + | |
| Digital Thermal Sensor capability | + | |
| Extended xAPIC support | + | - |
| LAHF / SAHF support in 64-bit mode | + | |
| Machine check architecture | + | |
| Machine check exception | + | |
| Memory-type range registers | + | |
| Model-specific registers | + | |
| Page attribute table | + | |
| Page global extension | + | |
| Page-size extensions (4MB pages) | + | |
| Pending break enable | + | |
| Perfmon and Debug capability | + | |
| Physical address extensions | + | |
| Power Limit Notification capability | + | |
| Process context identifiers | + | |
| Self-snoop | + | |
| TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states | + | |
| Thermal monitor | + | |
| Thermal monitor 2 | + | |
| Thermal monitor and software controlled clock facilities | + | |
| Time stamp counter | + | |
| Timestamp counter deadline | + | |
| Virtual 8086-mode enhancements | + | |
| xTPR Update Control | + | |
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