Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Core i5-2520M

Core i3-2100 vs Core i5-2520M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-2100 beats the Core i5-2520M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-2100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2520M. The Core i5-2520M outputs less heat than Core i3-2100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.