Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Core i7-13620H

Core i9-7940X vs Core i7-13620H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13620H beats the Core i9-7940X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has slightly more cores than the Core i7-13620H. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i7-13620H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13620H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13620H. Despite this, the Core i7-13620H 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.