Intel Core i5-4210U vs Intel Core i7-870

Core i5-4210U vs Core i7-870 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-870 is faster than the Core i5-4210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-870 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4210U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4210U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210U. Also, the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4210U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-870 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.