Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y

Core i3-3240 vs Core i7-8500Y specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8500Y beats the Core i3-3240 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-3240 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8500Y. The Core i7-8500Y 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.