Intel Core i3-2310M vs Intel Core i5-4210U

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 i5-4210U

Price

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$ 48.21

$ 1718.79 significantly less expensive

$ 1767.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

855 points

904 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1591 points

1741 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

651 points

681 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

625 points

654 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.73 points

17.60 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

658 points

1338 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

324 points

689 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

654 points

1460 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

324 points

764 points

135% 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

2.1 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

Identical

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

992nd of 1,089

983rd 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 i3-2310M vs Core i5-4210U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4210U beats the Core i3-2310M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2310M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-2310M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4210U. The Core i5-4210U outputs less heat than Core i3-2310M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.