Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 vs Intel Core i5-2400

Last updated: 2023-11-08

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2		Intel Core i5-2400
CPU comparison Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 or Intel Core i5-2400 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.15 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 8 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 was released in Q4/2018. The Intel Core i5-2400 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.40 GHz. The CPU supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-2400 was released in Q1/2011.

Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)	Family	Intel Core i5 (331)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx (2)	CPU group	Intel Core i 2000 (28)
2	Generation	2
Kryo 495	Architecture	Sandy Bridge S
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
--	Predecessor	--
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is 3.15 GHz while the Intel Core i5-2400 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-2400 is at 3.10 GHz (3.40 GHz).
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	Intel Core i5-2400
8	Cores	4
8	Threads	4
hybrid (big.LITTLE)	Core architecture	normal
No	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	No
3.15 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Gold	A-Core	3.10 GHz (3.40 GHz)
1.80 GHz 4x Kryo 495 Silver	B-Core	--
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	Intel Core i5-2400
Qualcomm AI engine	AI hardware	--
Hexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 or Intel Core i5-2400 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	Intel HD Graphics 2000
0.25 GHz	GPU frequency	0.85 GHz
0.59 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	1.10 GHz
6	GPU Generation	6
7 nm	Technology	32 nm
0	Max. displays	2
--	Compute units	6
--	Shader	48
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
--	Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
12.0	DirectX Version	10.1

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Qualcomm Adreno 690	GPU	Intel HD Graphics 2000
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode	Codec AVC	Decode / Encode
Decode	Codec VC-1	Decode
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 can use up to 32 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 68.2 GB/s. The Intel Core i5-2400 supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 21.3 GB/s.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	Intel Core i5-2400
LPDDR4X-4266	Memory	DDR3-1333
32 GB	Max. Memory	32 GB
8 (Octa Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
68.2 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	21.3 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
2.00 MB	L3 Cache	6.00 MB
--	PCIe version	2.0
--	PCIe lanes	16
--	PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is 7 W, while the Intel Core i5-2400 has a TDP of 95 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	Intel Core i5-2400
7 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	95 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 is manufactured in 7 nm and has 2.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i5-2400 is manufactured in 32 nm and has a 6.00 MB cache.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Characteristic	Intel Core i5-2400
7 nm	Technology	32 nm
Chiplet	Chip design	Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
--	ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
--	Socket	LGA 1155
None	Virtualization	VT-x, VT-x EPT
No	AES-NI	Yes
Android, Windows 10 (ARM)	Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Q4/2018	Release date	Q1/2011
--	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 (100%)

Intel Core i5-2400 (91%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 (100%)

Intel Core i5-2400 (82%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	760 (100%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	691 (91%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	2855 (100%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	2345 (82%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	615 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	2011 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	598 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1778 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	253 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	863 (100%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 Qualcomm Adreno 690 @ 0.59 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 Intel HD Graphics 2000 @ 1.10 GHz	106 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	3560 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	317 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1230 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	114 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	0 (0%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	355 (100%)

Performance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. The performance is given in the number (trillions) of arithmetic operations per second (TOPS).


	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2 8C 8T @ 3.15 GHz	7 (100%)
	Intel Core i5-2400 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	0 (0%)

Devices using this processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen. 2	Intel Core i5-2400
Lenovo Flex 5G Lenovo Yoga C 5G Samsung Galaxy Book S	Unknown

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