Intel Core i3-3227U vs AMD Athlon II X2 240

Core i3-3227U vs Athlon II X2 240 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X2 240 beats the Core i3-3227U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3227U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3227U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-3227U.

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 i3-3227U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.