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

Last updated: 2026-04-07

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 i5-9400F

Rank 2 - 65 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-9400F

Rank 2 - 46 %

Intel Core i5-2500

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,005 pts

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

697 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,341 pts

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,531 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,346

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

633

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

5,164

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,845

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

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

1,085

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

737

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

6C / 6T · 3.90 GHz

4,722

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

2,425

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

6C / 6T · 4.10 GHz

459

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

340

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

6C / 6T · 2.90 GHz

2,550

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,313

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

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

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

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Intel Core i5-2500
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel HD Graphics 2000
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 i5-9400F	Intel Core i5-2500
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

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

Thermal Management

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

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i5-9400F	Intel Core i5-2500
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q1/2019	Q1/2011
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 i5-9400F is 3.6 stars (65 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2500 has received 4.4 stars (27 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

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

★★★★★

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

★★★★★