Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Pentium B940

Core i7-8500Y vs Pentium B940 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8500Y 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 i7-8500Y has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium B940 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8500Y. A Core i7-8500Y CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium B940 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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.