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General information Core i5-2500K 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 i5-2500K Athlon X4 845
Overall Score 40500 0 % 39705 2 %
Future Proof 21 % 59.6 % 52 % 0 %
Benchmark Score 2690 0 % 2485 7.6 %
Single Thread Score 1682 0 % 1667.6 0.9 %
Encrypting Data 1038 MB/s 15.5 % 1228.1 MB/s 0 %
Compressing Data 65.8 MB/s 0 % 62.9 MB/s 4.4 %
String objects sorting 9014.9 thousand/s 0 % 6836.2 thousand/s 24.2 %
Prime numbers generation 25.9 millions/s 0 % 12 millions/s 53.5 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 14398.1 millions/s 30 % 20568.7 millions/s 0 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 7466.9 millions/s 0 % 6221.5 millions/s 16.7 %

Comparison of average FPS

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

Average frames per second Core i5-2500K Athlon X4 845
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 74.3 FPS 72.3 FPS
High settings 119.0 FPS 115.7 FPS
Medium settings 148.7 FPS 144.7 FPS
Low settings 185.9 FPS 180.8 FPS
Difference 0 % 2.7 %

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 i5-2500K Athlon X4 845
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 121.4 FPS 120.2 FPS
High settings 194.3 FPS 192.4 FPS
Medium settings 242.9 FPS 240.5 FPS
Low settings 303.6 FPS 300.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 1 %
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