Intel Core i5-4210U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8500

Core i5-4210U vs Core 2 Duo E8500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4210U is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-4210U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210U. A Core i5-4210U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8500 CPU because of its 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 i5-4210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.