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Intel Core i9-10940X: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Core i9-10940X sales 19 October 2019. This is Cascade Lake architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at home systems. It has 14 cores and 28 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4800 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is FCLGA2066 processor with a TDP of 165 Watt. It supports DDR4-2933 memory.

It provides good benchmark performance at 32.83 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.

General info

Of Core i9-10940X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

Value for money (0-100)

0.38

Market segment

Desktop

Architecture codename

Cascade Lake

Release date

19 October 2019

Price now

$3190

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Core i9-10940X's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i9-10940X's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

3.3 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

4.8 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

L1 cache

64K (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

1 MB (per core)

of 12 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

19.25 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Maximum core temperature

86 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

64 bit support

Unlocked

Compatibility

Information on Core i9-10940X compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

FCLGA2066

Power consumption (TDP)

165 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i9-10940X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512

AES-NI

AVX

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

Turbo Boost Max 3.0

Security technologies

Core i9-10940X technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

EDB

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i9-10940X are enumerated here.

VT-d

VT-x

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i9-10940X.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2933

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

256 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into Core i9-10940X.

Integrated graphics

N/A

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Core i9-10940X's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i9-10940X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

32.83

Passmark

29134

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Core i9-10940X is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Core i9-10940X performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.

Ryzen Threadripper 2950X

100 %

Core i9-10940X

99.73 %

Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i9-10940X from AMD is Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX, which is nearly equal in speed and lower by 2 positions in our rating.