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Intel Core i5-2500 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

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 - 52 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Rank 2 - 37 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

4C / 4T · 2.15 GHz

367

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

4C / 4T · 2.15 GHz

746

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

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

4C / 4T · 2.15 GHz

344

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

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

4C / 4T · 2.15 GHz

903

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2000

106

Qualcomm Adreno 530

476

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 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	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Family	Intel Core i5 (336)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (3)
Architecture	Sandy Bridge S	Kryo
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x 3.30 - 3.70 GHz	2x Kryo 2.15 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		2x Kryo 1.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2000	Qualcomm Adreno 530
GPU frequency	0.85 - 1.10 GHz	0.62 - 0.62 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	/ 256
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	0
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q1/2011	Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
AI hardware		Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications		Hexagon 680
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	LPDDR4-3733 (14.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	12 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
TDP	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-2500	Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q1/2011	Q4/2015
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 4.3 stars (28 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 has received 4.4 stars (10 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
4C / 4T · 2.15 GHz

★★★★★