Intel Core i5-4210U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

Core i5-4210U vs Core 2 Duo E8600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4210U beats the Core 2 Duo E8600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 2 Duo E8600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-4210U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E8600 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 E8600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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