Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Core i7 M 620

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 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
51% significantly better overall score
703 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2093 points
47% significantly better gaming score
1418 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

796 points
53% significantly better multitasking score
517 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

763 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score
496 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.49 points
16.70 points
1% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.67 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

931st of 1,089
1,028th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3210M vs Core i7 M 620 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3210M is faster than the Core i7 M 620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 M 620 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 i7 M 620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M.

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.

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