

However, you must conclude the price difference, other features you find important etc to make the decision to actually pull the trigger and go out and get it.

To summarize I'd conclude easily that the i5 4250 is better to answer your question. Others may chime in devaluing synthetic benchmarks but I've already addressed that before listing the above info. Now, synthetic benchmarks I do not nearly value as much as real world testing but without a specific review from a reputable source comparing exactly these two chips it's the next best thing we have access to and the i5 4250 benches a passmark rating score of 3463 vs the Core 2 Duo P8600 coming in at 1542.ģ463/1542 = 2.42 times better for this benchmark comparison. So off the bat if it makes you feel better your new chip will be 200MHz faster. The i5 actually has a turbo boost frequency of 2.6GHz. There are a couple of things here to consider.
