Intel Core i5-3210M Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2023-06-21

The Intel Core i5-3210M was released in Q2/2012 and has 2 cores. The processor can process 4 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket BGA 1023. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Intel Core i5-3210M achieved a result of 645 points (single-core) or 1,366 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i5-3210M belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i5-3210M.
Name:	Intel Core i5-3210M
Family:	Intel Core i5
CPU group:	Intel Core i 3000M
Architecture:	Ivy Bridge H
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	3
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	Intel Core i5-4210M

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-3210M has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-3210M is 2.50 GHz (3.10 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

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

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	2.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	3.10 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	3.10 GHz

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 i5-3210M has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i5-3210M has the Intel HD Graphics 4000 installed, which has 16 streaming multiprocessors (128 shaders).

GPU name:	Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU frequency:	0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.10 GHz
Compute units:	16
Shader:	128
Max. GPU Memory:	2 GB

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	7
Direct X:	11.0
Technology:	22 nm
Release date:	Q1/2011

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

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

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

Memory type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i5-3210M supports a maximum of 32 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 25.6 GB/s.

DDR3-1600	25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	32 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth:	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management The Intel Core i5-3210M has a TDP of 35 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	35 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i5-3210M is made in 22 nm and has 3.00 MB cache.

Technology:	22 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1023
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	3.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Linux

Virtualization:	VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA):	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions:	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date:	Q2/2012
Release price:	--
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i5-3210M
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz (3.10 GHz)

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Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i5-3210M 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.

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Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.


	Intel Core i5-2450M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	582
	AMD FX-8350 8C 8T @ 4.20 GHz	579
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz	579
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	563
	Intel Pentium G2020 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	558
	Intel Core i3-8130U 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	556
	Intel Pentium Gold 5405U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	535

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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.


	Intel Core M-5Y71 2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	1489
	Intel Celeron J4105 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1477
	AMD Athlon II X4 640 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1471
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1431
	AMD Athlon II X4 635 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1422
	Intel Core i7-7Y75 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	1403
	Intel Pentium Gold 5405U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	1395

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 Xeon E7-4880 v2 15C 30T @ 3.10 GHz	648
	MediaTek Kompanio 820 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	647
	MediaTek Dimensity 820 8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	646
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	645
	Samsung Exynos 880 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	645
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G 8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz	644
	Intel Core i7-3537U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	644

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 i7-4600U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	1372
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 8C 8T @ 1.80 GHz	1369
	Intel Core i5-670 2C 4T @ 3.46 GHz	1368
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1366
	MediaTek Helio P60 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	1364
	Intel Core i5-6300U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1364
	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz	1363

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 Pentium G3450T 2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz	547
	Intel Core i3-3250T 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	541
	Intel Core i7-930 4C 8T @ 3.06 GHz	541
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	540
	Intel Atom x6425E 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	539
	Intel Core i7-3537U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	539
	Intel Core i3-2125 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	534

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.


	Intel Core i3-3210 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	1113
	Intel Core i3-4005U 2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz	1105
	Intel Core i3-4010U 2C 4T @ 1.70 GHz	1105
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1102
	Intel Core i5-3437U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	1096
	Samsung Exynos 9610 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	1095
	Intel Core i3-2105 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	1093

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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.


	Intel Core i7-3630QM 4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz	245
	Intel Core i5-4590T 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	243
	Intel Core i5-4210M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	242
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	231
	AMD A10-9700 4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	231
	Intel Core m3-8100Y 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	231
	Intel Pentium G3258 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	231

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 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.


	Intel Core i5-L16G7 5C 5T @ 1.80 GHz	577
	Intel Core i5-4260U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	575
	AMD Athlon II X4 635 4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	563
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	562
	AMD Athlon II X4 630 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	544
	AMD Ryzen 3 2200U 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	544
	AMD A6-3650 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	542

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 i3-3227U Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.10 GHz	282
	Intel Core i5-3230M Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.10 GHz	282
	Intel Core i5-3337U Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.10 GHz	282
	Intel Core i5-3210M Intel HD Graphics 4000 @ 1.10 GHz	282
	AMD A9-9420e AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) @ 0.72 GHz	276
	AMD A6-9220C AMD Radeon R5 (Stoney Ridge) @ 0.72 GHz	276
	AMD A6-5357M AMD Radeon HD 8450G @ 0.72 GHz	276

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.


	Intel Core i7-2640M 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2477
	MediaTek Helio G80 8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz	2476
	Intel Core i5-670 2C 4T @ 3.46 GHz	2472
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	2468
	Intel Xeon D-1602 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	2462
	Intel Core i5-4360U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	2461
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	2458

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-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.


	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	248
	Intel Core2 Duo E7500 2C 2T @ 2.93 GHz	247
	Intel Core i5-650 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	246
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	244
	Intel Core i7-920 4C 8T @ 2.66 GHz	242
	AMD FX-8350 8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz	241
	Intel Core i5-2450M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	236

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.


	Intel Pentium G4400 2C 2T @ 3.30 GHz	717
	Intel Core i7-3537U 2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz	713
	AMD A8-5600K 4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	711
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	710
	Intel Core i5-2520M 2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz	709
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	697
	AMD A8-7600 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	693

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.


	Intel Core m3-7Y30 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	107
	Intel Core M-5Y51 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	107
	Intel Core M-5Y70 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	107
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	106
	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	106
	Intel Celeron G1840 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	106
	Intel Celeron G1830 2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz	106

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 A10-6790K 4C 4T @ 4.30 GHz	260
	Intel Core i3-3240T 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	260
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	260
	Intel Core i5-3210M 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	258
	Intel Celeron G5900 2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz	258
	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	258
	Intel Core i5-4310U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	258

Benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
527 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
504 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,399 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,372 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,648 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,599 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
641 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
588 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
1,925 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,319 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
222 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

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