Core i3-3240 vs Core 2 Quad Q9505 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 beats the Core i3-3240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3240 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9505 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Quad Q9505. A Core i3-3240 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9505 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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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