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Intel Celeron N2930 vs Intel Core i5-2500S

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 - 28 %

Intel Celeron N2930

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500S

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Celeron N2930

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500S

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

170

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

502

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,679

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

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

216

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

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

4C / 4T · 2.16 GHz

719

4C / 4T · 2.70 GHz

1,965

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

More benchmarks

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

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 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 Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
Family	Intel Celeron (165)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Celeron J1000/N2000 (17)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	Bay Trail	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	22 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1170	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.83 GHz	2.70 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.16 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.16 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 2000
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.85 GHz	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
TDP	7.5 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Celeron N2930	Intel Core i5-2500S
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q1/2014	Q1/2011
Release price	41 $
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 Celeron N2930 is 3.3 stars (4 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2500S has received 3.5 stars (6 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Celeron N2930
4C / 4T · 1.83 - 2.16 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-2500S
4C / 4T · 2.70 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★