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Intel Core i5-2520M Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-12

The Intel Core i5-2520M has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 2. gen of the Intel Core i5 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the PPGA 988 socket and was released in Q1/2011. The Intel Core i5-2520M scores 596 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,339 points.

At a glance
Name:	Intel Core i5-2520M
Family:	Intel Core i5 (334)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 2000M (46)
Architecture:	Sandy Bridge H
Technology:	32 nm
Segment:	Notebook
Generation:	2
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-2520M has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-2520M is 2.50 GHz (3.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	3.20 GHz

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--
NPU + CPU + iGPU:	--

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The Intel Core i5-2520M has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i5-2520M uses the Intel HD Graphics 3000, which has 96 texture shaders and 12 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 3000
GPU frequency:	0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.30 GHz
Compute units:	12
Shader:	96
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q1/2011

Max. displays:	2
Generation:	6
Direct X:	10.1
Technology:	32 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB
Frame Generation:	No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	No
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	No

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 21.3 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1333	21.3 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	35 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-2520M is made in 32 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	32 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	PPGA 988
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	3.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q1/2011
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i5-2520M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz (3.20 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-2520M have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a partial load benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. In the single-core test, only the fastest CPU core is measured. The test run simulates the performance in practice.


	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	565
	Intel Core i7-2640M 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	563
	Intel Core i5-2540M 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	559
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	549
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	540
	Intel Atom x6425E 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	539
	Intel Core i7-3537U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	539

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

The practical Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark tests the system's performance under partial load. The processor's maximum power consumption is far from being used up.


	Intel Core i7-2640M 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1184
	Intel Pentium Silver J5005 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1183
	Intel Core i5-3320M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1177
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1162
	Intel Core i5-3610ME 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1144
	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1128
	Intel Core i3-4010U 2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz	1105

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.


	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	607
	Intel Core i7-2710QE 4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	604
	Intel Core m3-6Y30 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	604
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	596
	Intel Celeron N4500 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	593
	Intel Core i7-3517U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	592
	Intel Core i5-2510E 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	592

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.


	Intel Core i7-4610Y 2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz	1346
	Intel Core i7-2715QE 4C 8T @ 2.10 GHz	1345
	Intel Pentium Gold 6405U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1340
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1339
	Intel Core i7-4510U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1335
	Intel Pentium Silver N5030 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1333
	Intel Core i7-3667U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1328

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.


	AMD A9-9425 2C 2T @ 3.70 GHz	195
	Intel Celeron J4125 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	192
	Intel Core M-5Y10c 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	191
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	190
	AMD Ryzen 3 2200U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	187
	Intel Celeron J4105 4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	187
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	184

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.


	Intel Core i5-4200U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	522
	Intel Core m5-6Y54 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	521
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	499
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	491
	Intel Core i5-4210M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	483
	Intel Pentium Silver N5000 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	482
	Intel Pentium Gold 4417U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	469

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.


	Intel Core i5-2415M Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz	250
	Intel Core i5-2435M Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz	250
	Intel Core i5-2450M Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz	250
	Intel Core i5-2520M Intel HD Graphics 3000 @ 1.30 GHz	250
	AMD A6-5400B AMD Radeon HD 7540D @ 0.64 GHz	246
	AMD A6-5400K AMD Radeon HD 7540D @ 0.64 GHz	246
	Intel Core i5-3610ME Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 0.95 GHz	243

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.


	Intel Celeron J3455 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	2255
	Intel Celeron N6211 2C 2T @ 2.40 GHz	2245
	Intel Core i3-5020U 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	2245
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2230
	Intel Core i5-3427U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	2214
	Intel Pentium Gold 4415U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	2208
	AMD A8-4555M 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	2198

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.


	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	254
	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	252
	Intel Core i5-5200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	249
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	248
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	244
	Intel Core i5-2450M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	236
	Intel Core i5-2410M 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	220

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.


	Intel Core i7-4500U 2C 4T @ 1.80 GHz	719
	Intel Core i7-3537U 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	713
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	710
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	709
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	697
	AMD A8-7600 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	693
	Intel Core i5-2450M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	682

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,818 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,764 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,501 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,473 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
662 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
610 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,089 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,423 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
239 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
741 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

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