Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i3-3240 vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

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