Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i7-8700 vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700 performs better than the Core i5-3210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3210M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-3210M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3210M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3210M outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.