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Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i5-9400F

Last updated: 2026-07-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 65 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400F

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400F

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697 pts

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,005 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,531 pts

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,341 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,346

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,164

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,085

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

4,722

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

340

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

459

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,313

6C / 6T · 2.90 GHz

2,550

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

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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)	Intel Core i 9000 (34)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge S	Coffee Lake S Refresh
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1155	LGA 1151-2
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i5-10400F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	6 / 6
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	6x
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	2.90 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.70 GHz	4.10 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		3.90 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	9.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2000	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	32 nm
Release date	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
TDP	95 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i5-9400F
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, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2019
Release price		157 $
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 4.3 stars (29 ratings), while Intel Core i5-9400F has received 3.7 stars (70 ratings).

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-9400F
6C / 6T · 2.90 - 4.10 GHz

★★★★★