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Intel Core i5-2500 vs Intel Core i7-11700K

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 - 42 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700K

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 19 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-11700K

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697 pts

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,547 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,531 pts

8C / 16T · 4.50 GHz

14,732 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

2,213

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

8C / 16T · 4.50 GHz

10,731

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

1,794

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

8C / 16T · 4.50 GHz

10,765

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

Intel UHD Graphics 750

666

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

340

8C / 16T · 5.00 GHz

642

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,313

8C / 16T · 3.60 GHz

6,283

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 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

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)	Intel Core i 11000 (22)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge S	Rocket Lake S
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1155	LGA 1200
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-10700K
Successor		Intel Core i7-12700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	8x
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	3.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.70 GHz	5.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		4.50 GHz
L2-Cache		4.00 MB
L3-Cache	6.00 MB	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2000	Intel UHD Graphics 750
GPU frequency	0.85 - 1.10 GHz	0.35 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	32 / 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	64 GB
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16	4.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s	39.4 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
TDP	95 W	125 W
TDP (PL2)		251 W @ 56 s
TDP up
TDP down		95 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Intel Core i7-11700K
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, AVX-512
Release date	Q1/2011	Q1/2021
Release price		374 $
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 i7-11700K has received 3.8 stars (53 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-11700K
8C / 16T · 3.60 - 5.00 GHz

★★★★★