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Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Celeron N5100

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 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 2 - 75 %

Intel Celeron N5100

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 2 - 72 %

Intel Celeron N5100

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697 pts

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

463 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,531 pts

4C / 4T · 2.20 GHz

1,598 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

468

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

4C / 4T · 2.20 GHz

1,286

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

632

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

4C / 4T · 2.20 GHz

1,834

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Jasper Lake)

340

More benchmarks

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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Celeron (165)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)	Intel Celeron N4000/N5000 (6)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge S	Jasper Lake
Technology	32 nm	10 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1155	BGA 1338
Predecessor		Intel Celeron N4100
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x Tremont
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	1.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.70 GHz	2.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		2.20 GHz
L2-Cache		1.50 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2000	Intel UHD Graphics 24 EUs (Jasper Lake)
GPU frequency	0.85 - 1.10 GHz	0.35 - 0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	8 GB
Technology	32 nm	10 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
TDP	95 W	6 W
TDP (PL2)		20 W
TDP up
TDP down		4.8 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Celeron N5100
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	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2021
Release price
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 Core i5-2500 is 4.4 stars (27 ratings), while Intel Celeron N5100 has received 3.1 stars (66 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i5-2500
4C / 4T · 3.30 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Celeron N5100
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 2.80 GHz

★★★★★