Intel Core i3-2350M vs Intel Core i5-3210M

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 i5-3210M

Price

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$ 36.03

$ 3.96 slightly less expensive

$ 39.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

788 points

1066 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1594 points

2093 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points

796 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

555 points

763 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

10.48 points

16.49 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

724 points

974 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

352 points

480 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

662 points

993 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

331 points

489 points

47% 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

2.3 GHz

2.5 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

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

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,007th of 1,089

931st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2012 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 i3-2350M vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3210M performs better than the Core i3-2350M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-2350M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2350M. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-2350M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.