Intel Core i5-4210M vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i5-4210M vs FX-9830P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9830P performs better than the Core i5-4210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9830P has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4210M. Indeed, the FX-9830P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4210M. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M.

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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.