i5 2500 (3.30Ghz) vs i5 3350p (3.1Ghz) Gaming CPU

DragonBorn1511 · Dec 28, 2014

Which will be better for gaming?

I've gotten a good deal on both CPU's and they're the same price.

On one hand the 3350p is a 3rd gen as opposed to 2nd gen, so this would make me presume that it would perform better.

On the other hand the 2500 has the 0.2Ghz advantage.

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3350P-vs-Intel-Core-i5-2500

This shows the the 2500 marginally beats out the 3350P, However I have heard around that CPU Boss isn't very reliable and can be quite bias.

jaguarskx · Dec 28, 2014

Overall, the performance is going to be roughly the same.

A lot of benchmarking has been done when Intel released the Ivy Bridge generation CPUs. Generally speaking when looking at over 25 different benchmark results (not games) that are CPU intensive, Ivy Bridge generation CPUs provides roughly 6% more performance than Sandy Bridge generation CPUs that the same clockspeed.

That means a 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge CPU is about equal to a 3.286GHz Sandy Bridge CPU; so roughly the same. Remember this is average performance increase based on CPU intensive benchmarks. Actual difference depends on the specific benchmark used.

DragonBorn1511 · Dec 28, 2014

jaguarskx :

Overall, the performance is going to be roughly the same.

A lot of benchmarking has been done when Intel released the Ivy Bridge generation CPUs. Generally speaking when looking at over 25 different benchmark results (not games) that are CPU intensive, Ivy Bridge generation CPUs provides roughly 6% more performance than Sandy Bridge generation CPUs that the same clockspeed.

That means a 3.1GHz Ivy Bridge CPU is about equal to a 3.286GHz Sandy Bridge CPU; so roughly the same. Remember this is average performance increase based on CPU intensive benchmarks. Actual difference depends on the specific benchmark used.

So which one do you recommend I go buy?

jaguarskx · Dec 28, 2014

I would simply go with the i5-3350p since it uses less power. In CPU intensive games there is at best probably just a 1 FPS difference between the two CPUs (which one get's that extra 1 FPS is hard to say).

DragonBorn1511 · Dec 28, 2014

jaguarskx :

Thanks, I also looked at the basic specs for Both CPU's the 3350P supports 2600Mhz DDR3 RAM which is considered the "norm" so that's a bonus

DragonBorn1511 · Dec 28, 2014

jaguarskx :

Would the i5 3340 be in the same boat as the 3350p?

jaguarskx · Dec 28, 2014

Yeah, basically the same CPU, but the i5-3350p consumes 69w vs 77w for the i5-3340.

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