Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i5-1340P

Core i7-7820X vs Core i5-1340P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820X beats the Core i5-1340P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1340P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1340P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1340P. Despite this, the Core i5-1340P has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.