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Intel Core i3-3240 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-3240

Rank 2 - 45 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i3-3240

Rank 2 - 77 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

586

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

294

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,240

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

941

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

672

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

271

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,483

8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

1,163

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2500

101

Qualcomm Adreno 506

125

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Intel Core i 3000 (31)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625/626 (2)
Architecture	Ivy Bridge S	Cortex-A53
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	2x	8x Cortex-A53
Frequency:	3.40 GHz	2.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):
Turbo (All Cores):		2.00 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	3.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2500	Qualcomm Adreno 506
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.05 GHz	0.65 - 0.65 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	/ 96
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	0
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q2/2012	Q4/2015

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
AI hardware		Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications		Hexagon 546
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR3-1866 (14.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	8 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
TDP	55 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Android
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q3/2012	Q2/2016
Release price	117 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i3-3240 is 4.0 stars (27 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 has received 3.9 stars (22 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-3240
2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
8C / 8T · 2.00 GHz

★★★★★