Intel Celeron J3455 vs Intel Core i3-3240

Compare Intel Celeron J Series 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

759 points
1315 points
73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1421 points
2538 points
78% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

577 points
986 points
70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

554 points
946 points
70% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.52 points
19.18 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

784 points
1122 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

256 points
547 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

745 points
1110 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

252 points
544 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.5 GHz
3.4 GHz
126% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

10 W
450% significantly lower TDP
55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

8 GiB
32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,016th of 1,089
866th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Celeron J Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1866
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Celeron J3455 vs Core i3-3240 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the Celeron J3455 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron J3455 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Celeron J3455 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240. Indeed, the Celeron J3455 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Celeron J3455. A Celeron J3455 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3240 CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Celeron J3455 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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