Intel Core i7-3940XM vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i7-3940XM vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U is faster than the Core i7-3940XM. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3940XM that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3940XM. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3940XM has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3940XM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.