Intel Core i7-1185G7 vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-3940XM

Price

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$ 1277.95

$ 344.04

$ 933.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3014 points

23% slightly better overall score

2439 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5168 points

30% slightly better gaming score

3946 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2395 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1992 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

1913 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

60.09 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

48.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5178 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2994 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1697 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

793 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5187 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2039 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1724 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

644 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

266% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

538th of 1,089

638th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-1185G7 vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3940XM beats the Core i7-1185G7 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1185G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i7-1185G7 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3940XM CPU because of its 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 i7-1185G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.