Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i3-530 vs Core i5-3210M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3210M beats the Core i3-530 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-530 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-530 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M. The Core i5-3210M outputs less heat than Core i3-530 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 i3-530 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.