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Intel Atom D2500 vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 15 %

Intel Atom D2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-8250U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 5 %

Intel Atom D2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-8250U

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 1.86 GHz

111

4C / 8T · 3.40 GHz

753

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 1.86 GHz

204

4C / 8T · 2.30 GHz

2,956

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel GMA 3600

Intel UHD Graphics 620

422

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
Family	Intel Atom (108)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Atom D2000 (4)	Intel Core i 8000U (KL) (7)
Architecture	Cedarview	Kaby Lake U Refresh
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	BGA 559	BGA 1356
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	4x
Frequency:	1.86 GHz	1.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):		3.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.30 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	1.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
GPU name	Intel GMA 3600	Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU frequency	0.40 GHz	0.30 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	1 GB	16 GB
Technology	65 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2008	Q3/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
Memory	DDR3-1066 (8.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	1	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth		11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
TDP	10 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Atom D2500	Intel Core i5-8250U
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE3	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q3/2011	Q3/2017
Release price	50 $	385 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Atom D2500 is 0 stars (0 ratings), while Intel Core i5-8250U has received 3.6 stars (157 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Atom D2500
2C / 2T · 1.86 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-8250U
4C / 8T · 1.60 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★