Intel Core i3-2100 vs Intel Core i5-4210M

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4210M

Price

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$ 49.00

$ 39.04 significantly less expensive

$ 88.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1270 points

1% slightly better overall score

1250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2433 points

2527 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

956 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

918 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

882 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.20 points

21.96 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

990 points

1750 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points

886 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

947 points

1765 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

465 points

907 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

37 W

75% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

878th of 1,089

883rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-2100 vs Core i5-4210M specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2100 performs better than the Core i5-4210M. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-4210M. The Core i5-4210M 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-2100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.