Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Core i9-7940X vs Core i7-1270P benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7940X performs better than the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-1270P has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1270P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1270P outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.