Intel Core i5-3570K vs Intel Pentium B940

Core i5-3570K vs Pentium B940 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3570K performs better than the Pentium B940. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium B940 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3570K has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium B940 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium B940. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3570K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium B940. The Pentium B940 outputs less heat than Core i5-3570K 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. For instance, the Core i5-3570K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.