Intel Core i3-3240T vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD 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

1082 points
1399 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2083 points
2628 points
26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

816 points
1061 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points
1018 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1159 points
1399 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points
502 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

981 points
1117 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
0.66% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.8 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

928th of 1,089
840th 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 i3-3240T vs Athlon X4 760K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i3-3240T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-3240T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-3240T.

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 i3-3240T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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