Intel Core i3-2310M vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

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

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Price

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$ 48.21

$ 23.03

$ 25.18 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

855 points

4% slightly better overall score

818 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1591 points

1767 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

651 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

586 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

625 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

563 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.73 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

10.18 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

658 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

622 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

324 points

352 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

654 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

615 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

324 points

373 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

992nd of 1,089

999th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

2008 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-2310M vs Core 2 Duo E8400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2310M performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-2310M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2310M. A Core i3-2310M CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU because of its 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 i3-2310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.