Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Core i5-4310U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1066 points

1109 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points

2153 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points

833 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

800 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points

17.18 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

974 points

1440 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

480 points

765 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

1574 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

489 points

809 points

65% significantly 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

25% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

16 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

931st of 1,089

921st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3210M vs Core i5-4310U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4310U is faster than the Core i5-3210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4310U. Also, the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4310U outputs less heat than Core i5-3210M thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.