Intel Core i5-7260U vs Intel Core i3-3240

Core i5-7260U vs Core i3-3240 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-3240 is faster than the Core i5-7260U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7260U 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 Core i3-3240 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7260U. A Core i5-7260U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-3240 CPU because of its 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 i5-7260U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.