Intel Core i3-3220 vs Intel Core i3-3240

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

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Intel Core i3-3240

Price

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$ 91.98

$ 41.00

$ 50.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points

1315 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2425 points

2538 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

968 points

986 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

929 points

946 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.91 points

19.18 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1097 points

1122 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

526 points

547 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1092 points

1110 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

531 points

544 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W

Identical

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

875th of 1,089

866th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-3220 vs Core i3-3240 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3240 performs better than the Core i3-3220. Despite this, the Core i3-3220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3220. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i3-3220 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.