Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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 Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.