Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Core i5-4300M

Core i3-3240 vs Core i5-4300M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the Core i5-4300M. Despite this, the Core i5-4300M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4300M. The Core i5-4300M 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.