Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Core i7-4558U

Core i5-3210M vs Core i7-4558U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4558U beats the Core i5-3210M in overall performance. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4558U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M. Also, the Core i7-4558U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4558U outputs less heat than Core i5-3210M thanks to a slightly 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.