AMD Athlon II X2 235e vs Intel Core i5-2500S. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Athlon II X2 (Propus) Intel Core i 2000
• Family
  AMD Athlon II Intel Core i5
• Generation
  1 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.7 GHz 2.7 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  2x -
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 10.1
• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 6
• GPU Frequency
  - 850 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 2000
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1100 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 2
• Release date
  - Q1/2011
• Shader
  - 48
• Technology
  - 32 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-2500S and AMD Athlon II X2 235e. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  16 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR3-1333
• PCIe
  2.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Athlon II X2 235e and Intel Core i5-2500S Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  45 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Athlon II X2 235e and Intel Core i5-2500S, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Propus Sandy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  MMX, 3DNow!, SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L2-Cache
  2 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 6 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2009 Q1/2011
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1155
• Technology
  45 nm 32 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT