Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1315 points
1% slightly better overall score
1297 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2538 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2477 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

986 points
0.82% slightly better multitasking score
978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

946 points
0.64% slightly better heavy workload score
940 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.18 points
19.51 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1122 points
1364 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

547 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
498 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1110 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1029 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

544 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
443 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
Identical
3.4 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

866th of 1,089
871st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-3240 vs Athlon X4 750K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-3240 performs better than the Athlon X4 750K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 750K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i3-3240 and Athlon X4 750K have the same clock speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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