Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium 5405U

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1315 points
58% significantly better overall score
831 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2538 points
51% significantly better gaming score
1679 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

986 points
60% significantly better multitasking score
613 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

946 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score
589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.18 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
15.88 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

55 W
15 W
266% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

866th of 1,089
995th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-3240 vs Pentium 5405U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the Pentium 5405U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium 5405U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium 5405U 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-3240 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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