Intel Core i3-3240 vs Intel Pentium G3250

Core i3-3240 vs Pentium G3250 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-3240 beats the Pentium G3250 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3250 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-3240 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-3240 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G3250. The Pentium G3250 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240 thanks to a slightly 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.