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General information Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 845
Launched Q4 2010 Q1 2016
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1155 FM2+
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge Carrizo
Clock 3.3 GHz 5.7 % 3.5 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 2.6 % 3.8 GHz 0 %
Cores 4 0 % 4 0 %
Threads 4 0 % 4 0 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 28 nm 12.5 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Data
2 × 96 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
1 × 1 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 845
Overall Score 40254 0 % 39450 2 %
Future Proof 21 % 59.6 % 52 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2626 0 % 2422 7.8 %
Single Thread Score 1710.4 0 % 1695.5 0.9 %
Encrypting Data 1036.8 MB/s 16.9 % 1246.9 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 65.6 MB/s 0 % 62.6 MB/s 4.5 %
String objects sorting 9086.2 thousand/s 0 % 6811.5 thousand/s 25 %
Prime numbers generation 24.1 millions/s 0 % 11.9 millions/s 50.4 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14568.1 millions/s 29.3 % 20598.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7517.1 millions/s 0 % 6237.4 millions/s 17 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-2500, Athlon X4 845.

Average frames per second Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 845
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 74.7 FPS 72.3 FPS
High settings 119.5 FPS 115.7 FPS
Medium settings 149.3 FPS 144.6 FPS
Low settings 186.7 FPS 180.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 3.1 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 845
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 121.9 FPS 120.4 FPS
High settings 195.0 FPS 192.6 FPS
Medium settings 243.7 FPS 240.8 FPS
Low settings 304.6 FPS 301.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 1.2 %
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