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Intel® Core™ i5-650 processor
The Intel® Core™ i5 processor, part of Intel's family of processors, puts smart performance well within your reach. It delivers solid performance for everyday applications, with the ability to increase speed as needed for demanding tasks.
Thanks to the Intel® Turbo Boost Technology¹, the Intel Core i5 processor automatically adapts to whatever you are doing on your PC, dialing-up speed to respond quickly to your needs. The Intel Core i5 processor is smart performance with a speed boost.
The Intel Core i5 processor also features Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology², which enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking. Do not let too many open applications slow you and your PC down. Get smart performance now.
The performance comparisons shown below compare a PC based on the Intel Core i5-650 processor to a three-year-old PC based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6400. The PC includes the Intel® HD Graphics, more memory, more storage capacity, and runs the newly released Microsoft Windows* 7 operating system. The three-year-old PC has older graphics technology, less memory, less storage capacity, and runs Microsoft Windows Vista*.
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Consumer multitasking
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Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology² allows each core of the processor to work on two tasks at the same time-adaptable performance and smart multitasking running demanding consumer applications faster.
PCMark Vantage*³ is a benchmark that measures your computer's performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity, and security. PCMark Vantage* runs some of these tasks at the same time (multitasking) and offers some insight into PC multitasking capability.
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Content creation
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The Intel® Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Toolλ is used to assess home PC performance on popular tasks like editing photos, compressing Hi-Def videos, and encoding videos to share with your friends on YouTube*.
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Visual experience
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The Intel® High Definition Experience and Performance Rate Test (Intel® HDXPRT) play HD experience ratingλ describes the playback experience of the test system while playing HD videos in H.264 and Flash* formats. The five-star rating system indicates the quality of experience (excellent, good, fair, poor, or very poor) delivered by the test PC. The Intel® Core™ processor family with Intel® HD Graphics brings enthusiast-class video playback to your PC.
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Accelerated productivity
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Want to develop a web-based training tool, produce streaming video, or multi-task with office applications? What about creating a dramatic flyby animation? The Intel® Core™ i5 processor delivers professional capabilities giving your business the edge it needs to be creative and competitive.
SYSmark* 2007± measures business application performance using four distinct business usage scenarios: E-Learning, video creation, office productivity, and 3D modeling.
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Business finance
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The Intel® Core™ i5 processor can execute Microsoft Excel*∇ common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division, rounding, square root, max, min, median, and average much faster than previous generations of processors. With its capabilities, the Intel Core i5 processor is an ideal choice for small businesses and large corporations.
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Secure computing
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The Intel® Core™ i5 processor features instructions called Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) which enables fast and secure data encryption and decryption. The instruction set increases productivity while improving security by encrypting files using the instructions (AESNI).
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Business multitasking
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The Intel® Core™ i5 processor features Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology², which enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time. This makes the financial calculations in Microsoft Excel* run faster while protecting your data from viruses and malwares by running virus scan application in the background.
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Mainstream gaming
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3DMark* Vantageß is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the Microsoft DirectX 10* performance of your PC graphics. A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system's 3D gaming capabilities, based on the comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. Systems that do not support DirectX 10 will receive a score of zero because they cannot complete the tests.
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The Intel® Core™ i5 processor with Intel® HD Graphics is a great choice for casual gamers. You can achieve well over 25 frames per second with mainstream games such as Sims* 3 and World of Warcraft*.
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¹ Intel® Turbo Boost Technology requires a PC with a processor with Intel Turbo Boost Technology capability. Intel Turbo Boost Technology performance varies depending on hardware, software, and overall system configuration. Check with your PC manufacturer on whether your system delivers Intel Turbo Boost Technology. See www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/ for more information.
² Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) requires a computer system with a processor supporting Intel HT Technology and an Intel HT Technology-enabled chipset, BIOS and operating system. Performance will vary depending on the specific hardware and software you use. The Intel® Core™ i5-750 desktop processor does not support Intel HT Technology. For more information, including details on which processors support Intel HT Technology, see www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/hyper-threading/index.htm.
³ PCMark Vantage* is a collection of various single- and multi-threaded CPU, graphics, and HDD test sets with the focus on Windows* Vista application tests. Tests have been selected to represent a subset of the individual Windows Vista Consumer Scenarios*.
λ Intel® High Definition Experience and Performance Rate Test 2009 (Intel® HDXPRT 2009) is a benchmark that runs consumer digital media applications on a PC, measures performance, and provides an indicator of the expected quality of video playback. Intel® HDXPRT 2009 automatically runs tests using commercially available applications from the following usage categories: music encoding, photo and video editing, and High Definition video playback. Results may vary depending on many variables including the processor, memory, disk drive, graphics card and operating system on the test system. For more information go to: www.intelcapabilitiesforum.net/downloads/hdxprt/.
± SYSmark* 2007 preview is BAPCo's latest version of the mainstream office productivity and Internet content creation benchmark tool used to characterize the performance of the business client. SYSmark 2007 preview features user-driven workloads and usage models developed by application experts.
∇ Microsoft Excel 2007* executing approximately 28,000 sets of calculations using commonly used calculations and function in Microsoft Excel. These include common arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, division, rounding, square root, max, min, median, and average. The input file is a 6.2MB spreadsheet.
° WinZip* software compresses and decompresses files. The application decompresses an encrypted archive containing 200 photos, 125 of which are 10MP photos and 75 are 6MP photos. The photos are in JPEG* format. The total size of all the photos is about 830MB.
§ This workload is a spreadsheet calculation while antivirus software is scanning in the background. The spreadsheet calculates the European put and call option valuation for Black-Scholes* option pricing model using Monte Carlo simulation*. The Black-Scholes model is used to calculate a theoretical call and put price using the five key determinants of an option's price: stock price, strike price, volatility, time to expiration, and short-term (risk free) interest rate. The workload is execution of approximately 300,000 iterations of Monte Carlo simulation using the Black-Scholes basic option pricing formula in Microsoft Excel 2007*. In addition, the workload uses Excel lookup functions to compare the put price from the model with the historical market price for 50,000 rows to understand the convergence. The input file is a 70.1 MB spreadsheet. The second task is Symantec Antivirus* Client software which is used to custom scan a portion of the Windows System* 32 directory. The size of the directory is about 293MB.
ß 3DMark Vantage* is a 3D graphics benchmark, designed for Microsoft Windows Vista* and DirectX* 10. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests, and several feature tests. The CPU tests measures the contribution of the processor on 3D graphical performance while the graphics test measures game simulation performance.
Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel® Performance Benchmark Limitations.
Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.