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Intel Pentium N4200 vs Intel Core i5-2500k

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 44 %

Intel Pentium N4200

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500k

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 45 %

Intel Pentium N4200

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-2500k

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

290

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

651

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

682

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

1,948

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

113 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

262 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

326

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

760

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

371 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

894 cb

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

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

1,164

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

2,537

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 505

216

Intel HD Graphics 3000

211

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

4C / 4T · 1.10 GHz

624

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

1,336

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

50 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

127 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.50 GHz

182 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

461 cb

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

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

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Pentium J4000/N4000 (2)	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
Architecture	Apollo Lake	Sandy Bridge S
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1296	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	1.10 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.50 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.50 GHz	3.70 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 505	Intel HD Graphics 3000
GPU frequency	0.20 - 0.75 GHz	0.85 - 1.10 GHz
CUs / Shader	18 / 144	12 / 96
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	32 nm
Release date	Q3/2016	Q1/2011

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) LPDDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s) DDR3-1866 (29.9 GB/s)	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 6	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	3.0 GB/s	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
TDP	6 W	95 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4 W
T. junction max.	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium N4200	Intel Core i5-2500k
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	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q3/2016	Q1/2011
Release price	56 $
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 Pentium N4200 is 4.0 stars (28 ratings), while Intel Core i5-2500k has received 3.9 stars (37 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium N4200
4C / 4T · 1.10 - 2.50 GHz

★★★★★

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

★★★★★