AMD Athlon PRO 300U vs Intel Core i3-3240T

AMD Athlon PRO 300U
AMD Socket FP5MOBILE
2400 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2019
AMD Athlon PRO 300U
Intel Core i3-3240T
Intel Socket 1155DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2012
Intel Core i3-3240T

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    123%
  • Intel Core i3-3240T
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    118%
  • Intel Core i3-3240T
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    128%
  • Intel Core i3-3240T
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon PRO 300U

18% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 28% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 23% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-3240T

None

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon PRO 300U

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost
EIST
Intel 64
Hyper-Threading
XD bit
VT-x
TXT

Architecture

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_IvyBridge
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4 Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameRaven Ridge 2vsIvy Bridge
Release DateApr 2019vsSep 2012

Cores

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsRadeon Vega 3vsIntel HD 2500

Cache

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
L1 Cache128K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
SocketAMD Socket FP5vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case TempN/Avs65°C
PackagevsFC-LGA12C
Die Sizeunknownvs94mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon PRO 300UIntel Core i3-3240T
Cpu Frequency2400 MHzvs3000 MHz
Turbo Clock3300 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP15 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    3630 points
  • Intel Core i3-3240T
    3090 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U
    6441 points
  • Intel Core i3-3240T
    7416 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U (simulated)
    126.5
  • Intel Core i3-3240T (simulated)
    106.92

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon PRO 300U (simulated)
    368.4
  • Intel Core i3-3240T (simulated)
    285.86

points - higher is better