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Intel Core i3-3240 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 77 %

Intel Core i3-3240

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 51 %

Intel Core i3-3240

Rank 1 - 100 %

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

586

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

960

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,240

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

2,819

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

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

672

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

724

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

2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,483

8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

2,578

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 2500

101

Qualcomm Adreno 640

899

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

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 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

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
Family	Intel Core i3 (205)	Qualcomm Snapdragon (105)
CPU group	Intel Core i 3000 (31)	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855/860 (3)
Architecture	Ivy Bridge S	Kryo 485
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket	LGA 1155
Predecessor		Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 4	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (Prime / big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x 3.40 GHz	1x Kryo 485 Prime 2.84 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		3x Kryo 485 Gold 2.42 GHz
Core Cluster 3:		4x Kryo 485 Silver 1.80 GHz
L2-Cache		1.75 MB
L3-Cache	3.00 MB	2.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 2500	Qualcomm Adreno 640
GPU frequency	0.65 - 1.05 GHz	0.25 - 0.59 GHz
CUs / Shader	6 / 48	4 / 384
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	1
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	4 GB
Technology	22 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q2/2012	Q1/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
AI hardware		Qualcomm AI engine
AI specifications		Hexagon 690 @ 7 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	32 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
TDP	55 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i3-3240	Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
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	Q4/2018
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 3.8 stars (23 ratings), while Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 has received 4.3 stars (62 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i3-3240
2C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855
8C / 8T · 2.84 GHz

★★★★★