Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i9-7940X vs Core i5-13420H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7940X beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.