Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

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
1399 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2538 points
2628 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

986 points
1061 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

946 points
1018 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.18 points
19.35 points
0.87% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1122 points
1399 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

547 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
502 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1110 points
1117 points
0.63% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

544 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 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
3.8 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

866th of 1,089
840th 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 760K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3240.

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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