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Intel Pentium N3540 vs Intel Core i5-3340

Last updated: 2026-07-01

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 34 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-3340

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Pentium N3540

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i5-3340

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

203

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

664

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

647

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

1,977

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

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

261

4C / 4T · 3.30 GHz

714

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

4C / 4T · 2.66 GHz

854

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

2,402

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)

Intel HD Graphics 2500

101

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 (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

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
Family	Intel Pentium (150)	Intel Core i5 (336)
CPU group	Intel Pentium J2000/N3500 (6)	Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture	Bay Trail	Ivy Bridge S
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	BGA 1170	LGA 1155
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	2.16 GHz	3.10 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.66 GHz	3.30 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.66 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	2.00 MB	6.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail GT1)	Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency	0.31 - 0.90 GHz	0.65 - 1.05 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 32	6 / 48
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2	3
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB	2 GB
Technology	22 nm	22 nm
Release date	Q3/2013	Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
Memory	DDR3-1333 (21.3 GB/s)	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	8 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	2.0 x 4	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	2.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
TDP	7.5 W	77 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down	4.5 W
T. junction max.	100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Pentium N3540	Intel Core i5-3340
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date	Q3/2014	Q3/2013
Release price		184 $
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 Pentium N3540 is 3.8 stars (16 ratings), while Intel Core i5-3340 has received 3.5 stars (2 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Pentium N3540
4C / 4T · 2.16 - 2.66 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i5-3340
4C / 4T · 3.10 - 3.30 GHz

★★★★★