Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i5-3210M

Core i9-10900 vs Core i5-3210M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3210M. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3210M. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3210M. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3210M. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3210M outputs less heat than Core i9-10900 thanks to a 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.