Intel Core i5-2450M vs Intel Core i5-3210M

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Intel Core i5-3210M

Price

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$ 74.02

$ 39.99

$ 34.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1014 points

1066 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1935 points

2093 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

766 points

796 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

735 points

763 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.58 points

16.49 points

150% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

905 points

974 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

466 points

480 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

871 points

993 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

489 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

Identical

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

Identical

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

Identical

35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

942nd of 1,089

931st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2450M vs Core i5-3210M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2450M is faster than the Core i5-3210M. Despite this, the Core i5-3210M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-2450M and Core i5-3210M are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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.

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 i5-2450M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.