Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core i7-4610M

Core i5-10210U vs Core i7-4610M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10210U is faster than the Core i7-4610M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4610M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10210U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4610M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4610M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4610M 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 i7-4610M 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 i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.