Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Core i5-1155G7

Core i3-3240 vs Core i5-1155G7 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1155G7 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1155G7 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-3240 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-3240. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1155G7. The Core i5-1155G7 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.