Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i5-3210M vs Core i9-14900HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i5-3210M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3210M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-14900HX has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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.