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General information Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 740
Launched Q4 2010 Q4 2012
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory Intel AMD
Socket LGA1155 FM2
Series Name Intel Core i5 AMD Athlon X4
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge Richland
Clock 3.3 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 3 %
Turbo Clock 3.7 GHz 0 % 3.7 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 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
4 × 16 kB Data
2 × 64 kB Instruction
L2 Cache 2 × 256 kB
2 × 2 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported No No
Performance Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 740
Overall Score 40411 0 % 36117 10.6 %
Future Proof 21 % 36.4 % 33 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2667 0 % 1702 36.2 %
Single Thread Score 1715.5 0 % 1367.2 20.3 %
Encrypting Data 1032.6 MB/s 73.5 % 3896.8 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 66.3 MB/s 0 % 42.7 MB/s 35.7 %
String objects sorting 9048.9 thousand/s 0 % 5406.6 thousand/s 40.3 %
Prime numbers generation 24.1 millions/s 0 % 10.9 millions/s 54.7 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14539 millions/s 17.1 % 17548.5 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7390.4 millions/s 0 % 4792.8 millions/s 35.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Core i5-2500, Athlon X4 740.

Average frames per second Core i5-2500 Athlon X4 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 74.8 FPS 62.0 FPS
High settings 119.6 FPS 99.2 FPS
Medium settings 149.5 FPS 124.0 FPS
Low settings 186.9 FPS 155.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 17.1 %

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 740
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 121.7 FPS 114.1 FPS
High settings 194.7 FPS 182.6 FPS
Medium settings 243.4 FPS 228.2 FPS
Low settings 304.2 FPS 285.3 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.2 %
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