Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Core i3-4160

Core i3-3240 vs Core i3-4160 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-4160 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4160 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3240. The Core i3-4160 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 thanks to a slightly 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.