Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core i7-10810U

Core i5-10210U vs Core i7-10810U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10810U beats the Core i5-10210U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10810U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-10210U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10210U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10210U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10810U. Despite this, the Core i7-10810U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-10810U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. The Core i7-10810U also has significantly more 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.