Intel Core i3-3240T Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i3-3240T has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 3. gen of the Intel Core i3 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1155 socket and was released in Q3/2012. The Intel Core i3-3240T scores 536 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 1,212 points.
Intel Core i3-3240T

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i3-3240T. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i3-3240T.

Name: Intel Core i3-3240T
Family: Intel Core i3 (202)
CPU group: Intel Core i 3000 (31)
Architecture: Ivy Bridge S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 3
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i3-3240T has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i3-3240T is 2.90 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.90 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): --
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i3-3240T has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i3-3240T uses the Intel HD Graphics 2500, which has 48 texture shaders and 6 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 2500
GPU frequency: 0.65 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.05 GHz
Compute units: 6
Shader: 48
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2012
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 7
Direct X: 11.0
Technology: 22 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 2 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): No
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: No
VP9: No
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 25.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR3-1600
25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 2.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 8.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 35 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 35 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Core i3-3240T is made in 22 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 3.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 22 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1155
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 3.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
Release date: Q3/2012
Release price: 117 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i3-3240T have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD FX-9830P AMD FX-9830P
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
538
AMD A8-6600K AMD A8-6600K
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
537
Intel Core i7-940 Intel Core i7-940
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
537
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
536
Intel Core i3-3130M Intel Core i3-3130M
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
536
Intel Celeron G1620 Intel Celeron G1620
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
536
Intel Core i7-2617M Intel Core i7-2617M
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
535

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Celeron G1840 Intel Celeron G1840
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
1220
Intel Pentium Gold 4415U Intel Pentium Gold 4415U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1218
Intel Core i5-2410M Intel Core i5-2410M
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1215
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1212
AMD A10-9600P AMD A10-9600P
4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
1211
Intel Core i5-4260U Intel Core i5-4260U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
1211
AMD Phenom II X4 805 AMD Phenom II X4 805
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1209

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Pentium G3240T Intel Pentium G3240T
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
502
Intel Pentium G860 Intel Pentium G860
2C 2T @ 3.00 GHz
500
Intel Atom x6413E Intel Atom x6413E
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
498
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
496
Intel Celeron G1820 Intel Celeron G1820
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
496
Intel Pentium G2020 Intel Pentium G2020
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
495
Intel Core i7-2630QM Intel Core i7-2630QM
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
494

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Celeron N4120 Intel Celeron N4120
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
1076
Intel Core i7-3537U Intel Core i7-3537U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
1070
Intel Celeron G3930T Intel Celeron G3930T
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
1068
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1065
Intel Core i3-3130M Intel Core i3-3130M
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
1058
Intel Atom C2750 Intel Atom C2750
8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
1057
AMD A10-5700 AMD A10-5700
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1054

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Celeron G1610 Intel Celeron G1610
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz
101
Intel Pentium G2010 Intel Pentium G2010
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz
101
Intel Pentium G2020 Intel Pentium G2020
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.05 GHz
101
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
Intel HD Graphics 2500 @ 1.05 GHz
101
MediaTek Helio P70 MediaTek Helio P70
ARM Mali-G72 MP3 @ 0.90 GHz
100
UNISOC T616 UNISOC T616
ARM Mali-G57 MP1 @ 0.75 GHz
96
Intel Pentium 2117U Intel Pentium 2117U
Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1) @ 1.00 GHz
96

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Apple A9 Apple A9
2C 2T @ 1.85 GHz
2053
AMD A8-3500M AMD A8-3500M
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
2052
Intel Core i7-3517U Intel Core i7-3517U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2031
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
2030
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400
4C 4T @ 2.66 GHz
2029
Intel Core M-5Y71 Intel Core M-5Y71
2C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
2027
Intel Core i3-5005U Intel Core i3-5005U
2C 4T @ 2.00 GHz
2025

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Celeron G1820 Intel Celeron G1820
2C 2T @ 2.70 GHz
102
Intel Pentium G2020 Intel Pentium G2020
2C 2T @ 2.90 GHz
101
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
100
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
99
Intel Core i5-760 Intel Core i5-760
4C 4T @ 3.33 GHz
99
Intel Core i5-3437U Intel Core i5-3437U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
99
Intel Celeron G1630 Intel Celeron G1630
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
99

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-7100U Intel Core i3-7100U
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
262
Intel Core i7-4500U Intel Core i7-4500U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
261
Intel Core i7-8500Y Intel Core i7-8500Y
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
261
Intel Core i3-3240T Intel Core i3-3240T
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
260
Intel Core i5-4300U Intel Core i5-4300U
2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
260
AMD A10-6790K AMD A10-6790K
4C 4T @ 4.30 GHz
260
Intel Celeron G5900 Intel Celeron G5900
2C 2T @ 3.40 GHz
258

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