Intel Core i3-7100U vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 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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$ 1161.00

$ 39.99

$ 1121.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

960 points

1066 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1881 points

2093 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

720 points

796 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

693 points

763 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.26 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

16.49 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1556 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

974 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

757 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

480 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1571 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

770 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

489 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.5 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

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

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

962nd of 1,089

931st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-7100U vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3210M is faster than the Core i3-7100U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7100U. A Core i3-7100U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3210M CPU because of its 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 i3-7100U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.