Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i3-3240 vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 635 performs better than the Core i3-3240. Despite this, the Core i3-3240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3240 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.