Intel Core i3-530 vs Intel Pentium B940

Core i3-530 vs Pentium B940 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-530 beats the Pentium B940 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium B940 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i3-530 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-530 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium B940. The Pentium B940 outputs less heat than Core i3-530 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-530 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.