Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Core i9-10900 vs Core i9-7940X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10900 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.