Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Core i5-4210M

Core i7-920 vs Core i5-4210M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-920 is faster than the Core i5-4210M. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-920 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4210M that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4210M. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-920 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-4210M outputs less heat than Core i7-920 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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.