Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Core i5-5300U

Core i3-3240 vs Core i5-5300U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the Core i5-5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-5300U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-5300U. The Core i5-5300U 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.