Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Core i5-10210U vs Core Ultra 7 256V specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 256V 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 256V has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-10210U that has 4 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10210U. Also, the Core Ultra 7 256V has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 256V has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. The Core Ultra 7 256V also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.