Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Core i7-8700T vs Core i7-3940XM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Core i7-3940XM in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8700T 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-8700T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-3940XM. The Core i7-8700T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.