Intel Core i3-3120M 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

924 points

2% slightly better overall score

904 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1808 points

3% slightly better gaming score

1741 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

689 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

681 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

660 points

0.92% slightly better heavy workload score

654 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

13.36 points

17.60 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

854 points

1338 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

405 points

689 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

831 points

1460 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

400 points

764 points

91% 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

2.5 GHz

47% significantly 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

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

974th 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

2012 August

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3120M vs Core i5-4210U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4210U performs better than the Core i3-3120M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3120M 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 i3-3120M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210U. The Core i5-4210U outputs less heat than Core i3-3120M 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 i3-3120M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.