Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core i5-8250U

Core i5-10210U vs Core i5-8250U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10210U beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-10210U and Core i5-8250U are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.