Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Core i9-7940X vs Core i5-1334U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7940X beats the Core i5-1334U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1334U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7940X has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-1334U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1334U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1334U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.