Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i5-4300U vs Core i5-3210M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3210M beats the Core i5-4300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3210M. Despite this, the Core i5-3210M has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3210M 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.