Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i7-6500U vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6500U 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-6500U and Core i5-3210M have the same clock speed. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6500U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.