Intel Core i3-3240T vs Intel Pentium N4200

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium N Series 4 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
68% significantly better overall score
641 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2083 points
67% significantly better gaming score
1245 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

816 points
71% significantly better multitasking score
475 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

784 points
72% significantly better heavy workload score
454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1159 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
658 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
260 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

981 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
716 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
272 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
163% significantly higher clock speed
1.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
6 W
483% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
8 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

928th of 1,089
1,048th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium N Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1866

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i3-3240T vs Pentium N4200 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240T is faster than the Pentium N4200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium N4200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Pentium N4200 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i3-3240T that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-3240T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium N4200. The Pentium N4200 outputs less heat than Core i3-3240T 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 i3-3240T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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