Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core i7-4558U

Core i5-10210U vs Core i7-4558U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10210U is faster than the Core i7-4558U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4558U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-10210U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4558U. Indeed, the Core i5-10210U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4558U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4558U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4558U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10210U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4558U CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.