Intel Core i5-3210M vs Intel Pentium N4200

Core i5-3210M vs Pentium N4200 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3210M beats the Pentium N4200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3210M. Indeed, the Pentium N4200 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3210M. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-3210M has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-3210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.