Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i3-3240 vs FX-9830P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-9830P beats the Core i3-3240 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3240 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9830P has significantly more cores than the Core i3-3240. Indeed, the FX-9830P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-3240. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-9830P.

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.