Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium 4417U

Core i3-3240 vs Pentium 4417U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the Pentium 4417U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 4417U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Pentium 4417U 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.