Intel Core i3-3240 vs AMD Athlon 3000G. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 3000 AMD Athlon 3000
• Family
  Intel Core i3 Athlon
• Generation
  3 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Athlon 3000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.4 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo 3.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  11.0 12
• Execution units
  6 3
• Generation
  7 8
• GPU Frequency
  650 MHz 1100 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 2500 Radeon Vega 3 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2012 Q1/2018
• Shader
  48 192
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 3

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Athlon 3000G and Intel Core i3-3240. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 2667

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i3-3240 and AMD Athlon 3000G Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  55 W 35 W
• Default TDP
  - 35 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i3-3240 and AMD Athlon 3000G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge S Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 1 MB
• L3-Cache
  3 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2012 Q4/2019
• Socket
  LGA 1155 AM4
• Technology
  22 nm 14nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Picasso
• L1-Cache
  - 0.1875 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - YD3000C6FHBOX
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  - YD3000C6FHMPK
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YD3000C6M2OFH
• Operating systems
  - Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit