Intel Core i5-7300HQ vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i5-7300HQ vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7300HQ is faster than the Core i5-3210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-7300HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-3210M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-7300HQ and Core i5-3210M are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-7300HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3210M outputs less heat than Core i5-7300HQ thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-7300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.