Intel Core i7-8705G vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Core i7-8705G vs Core i7-3940XM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8705G performs better than the Core i7-3940XM. Despite this, the Core i7-3940XM has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8705G. Despite this, the Core i7-8705G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM outputs less heat than Core i7-8705G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8705G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-3940XM. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-8705G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.