Intel Core i3-5010U Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-04-13

The Intel Core i3-5010U has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 5. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1168 socket and was released in Q1/2015. The Intel Core i3-5010U scores 535 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,173 points.

CPU lineage
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Name:	Intel Core i3-5010U
Family:	Intel Core i3
CPU group:	Intel Core i 5000U
Architecture:	Broadwell U
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	5
Predecessor:	Intel Core i3-4010U
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-5010U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-5010U is 2.10 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	--
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	--

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i3-5010U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-5010U uses the Intel HD Graphics 5500, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 5500
GPU frequency:	0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	0.90 GHz
Compute units:	24
Shader:	192
Max. GPU Memory:	16 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	8
Direct X:	11.2
Technology:	14 nm
Release date:	Q1/2015

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit):	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):	No
h264:	Decode / Encode
VP8:	Decode
VP9:	No

AV1:	No
AVC:	Decode / Encode
VC-1:	Decode
JPEG:	Decode

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The processor can use up to 16 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

DDR3-1600	25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	2.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth:	6.0 GB/s

Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	15 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	10 W
Tjunction max.:	105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-5010U is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1168
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	3.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date:	Q1/2015
Release price:	281 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-5010U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Celeron G1620 2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz	536
	Intel Core i3-3130M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	536
	Intel Core i3-3240T 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	536
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	535
	Intel Core i7-2617M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	535
	Intel Core i3-5015U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	535
	Intel Celeron G1840T 2C 2T @ 2.50 GHz	535

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-4200U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	1180
	AMD Phenom II X4 820 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1177
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 8C 8T @ 1.50 GHz	1176
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	1173
	Intel Core i7-3517U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	1171
	Intel Core i3-550 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1170
	Intel Core i3-6102E 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	1170

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Celeron G4900 2C 2T @ 3.10 GHz	669
	Intel Pentium G3258 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	667
	Intel Pentium G3420 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	667
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	665
	Intel Core i5-4300Y 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	665
	Intel Core i3-5015U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	665
	Intel Core i5-3340S 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	664

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	UNISOC T700 8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	1392
	Intel Core i7-870S 4C 8T @ 2.66 GHz	1391
	Intel Core i5-8200Y 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1390
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	1380
	Intel Processor N50 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	1376
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	1376
	Samsung Exynos 8895 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	1367

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-5300U Intel HD Graphics 5500 @ 0.90 GHz	346
	Intel Core M-5Y51 Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.90 GHz	346
	Intel Core M-5Y71 Intel HD Graphics 5300 @ 0.90 GHz	346
	Intel Core i3-5010U Intel HD Graphics 5500 @ 0.90 GHz	346
	Intel Pentium Gold G7400TE Intel UHD Graphics 710 @ 1.35 GHz	345
	Intel Pentium Gold G7400T Intel UHD Graphics 710 @ 1.35 GHz	345
	Intel Pentium Gold G7400E Intel UHD Graphics 710 @ 1.35 GHz	345

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	AMD Phenom II X2 511 2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz	2188
	AMD Phenom II X2 565 2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz	2188
	AMD Phenom II X2 B59 2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz	2188
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	2186
	Intel Celeron G3900 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	2178
	AMD A6-5400K 2C 2T @ 3.80 GHz	2177
	Intel Core i5-4250U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	2170

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	AMD FX-4100 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	636
	Intel Pentium G3220 2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz	630
	Intel Core i5-2410M 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	629
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	628
	Intel Celeron G3930 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	627
	Intel Pentium N4200 4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz	624
	Intel Core i5-4200U 2C 4T @ 1.60 GHz	617

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	AMD Phenom II X2 560 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	87
	AMD Phenom II X4 850 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	87
	AMD Phenom II X4 B99 4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	87
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	86
	Intel Xeon X3440 4C 8T @ 2.93 GHz	86
	AMD FX-9830P 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	86
	Intel Celeron 3965U 2C 2T @ 2.20 GHz	86

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	AMD A12-9700P 4C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	223
	AMD Athlon II X4 610e 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	223
	Intel Core i5-3437U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	223
	Intel Core i3-5010U 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	221
	Intel Celeron G3930T 2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz	220
	Intel Celeron G3930 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	220
	Intel Celeron G3920 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	220

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
725 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,102 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,097 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
941 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
937 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
825 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
836 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

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