Intel Core i5-2500K: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The Intel Core i5-2500K is a 4-core and 4-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3300 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 793
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 2605
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 4087
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 1697
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 2857
Processor Specs
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-2500K
- Frequency
- 3300 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 3700 MHz
- Cores
- 4
- Threads
- 4
- TDP
- 95 W
- GPU
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- Codename
- Sandy Bridge
- Package
- LGA1155

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 778
- Multi-Core Score
- 2705
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for macOS x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- macOS 11.5.1 (Build 20G80)
- Model
- iMac19,1
- Model ID
- iMac19,1
- Motherboard
- Apple Inc. Mac-AA95B1DDAB278B95 iMac19,1
CPU Specifications
- Name
- Intel Core i5-2500K
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 4 Cores
- Identifier
- GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7
- Base Frequency
- 3.31 GHz
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 2
- L2 Cache
- 256 KB x 2
- L3 Cache
- 6.00 MB x 1
Memory Information
- Size
- 16.00 GB
- Type
- RAM
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 778 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 850 |
| Integer Score | 726 |
| Floating Point Score | 879 |
| AES-XTS | 850 1.45 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 903 4.57 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 759 35.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 829 2.34 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 599 702.8 KElements/sec |
| SQLite | 676 211.7 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 720 39.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 667 212.4 KB/sec |
| Clang | 670 5.22 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 753 8.73 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 801 1.00 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 984 6095.7 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 726 39.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 823 6.33 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 807 19.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 1483 72.7 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 1437 19.6 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 955 766.9 Kpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 596 5.34 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 873 27.9 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 602 23.3 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 2705 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 3013 |
| Integer Score | 2528 |
| Floating Point Score | 3036 |
| AES-XTS | 3013 5.14 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 3007 15.2 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 2881 136.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 2138 6.03 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 2231 2.62 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 2672 837.1 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 2582 140.1 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 2122 676.0 KB/sec |
| Clang | 2565 20.0 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 2716 31.5 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 2747 3.44 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 3850 23849.8 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 3169 174.2 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 3232 24.9 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2910 71.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 4417 216.7 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 5315 72.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 4049 3.25 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 2242 20.1 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 1995 63.8 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 1509 58.3 images/sec |