Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Core i5-5300U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 5th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-5300U

Price

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$ 39.99

$ 1836.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1876.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1066 points

1153 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points

2272 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points

860 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points

826 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points

24.25 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

974 points

1558 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

480 points

813 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

1572 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

489 points

825 points

68% 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

8% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

2.9 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

909th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3210M vs Core i5-5300U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-5300U 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. Also, the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-5300U 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.

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