14 core Intel Core i9-10940X is just 5% ahead of AMD Ryzen 9 3900X in Multicore

14 core Intel Core i9-10940X is just 5% ahead of the Core i9-10920X and AMD Ryzen 9 3900X in multicore workloads

People have already heard about 10 core, 12 core, and 18 core claimed by Intel’s upcoming Cascade Lake-X (CL-X), now a 14 core SKU has appeared online.

With previous results, there were obvious differences between the CL-X series, this new 14 core chip only outcast its 12 core siblings by having 2 additional cores. The successor to the Core i9-9940X only outperformed the 12 core Ryzen 9 3900X by 5% in multicore performance too.

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The Core i9-10940X is the fourth Cascade Lake-X (CL-X) chip to make its way onto the Geekbench database, with the Core i9-10900X, Core i9-10920X, and Core i9-10980XE all appeared online this month. Other than that, the only probable Core i9 CL-X processor left to share the stage is the Core i9-10960X, which would be a 16 core SKU if the Core i9-9960X is anything to go by.

According to Geekbench, the Core i9-10940X has a frequency between 2.87 GHz and 4.18 GHz, although this would put the upcoming High-End Desktop (HEDT) chip short of its predecessor, the Core i9-9940X. Instead, @momomo_US, a frequent processor leaker and tipster, claims that the Core i9-10940X will have a 3.3 GHz base clock like its predecessor, but its boost performance still unknown.

Intel has constantly increased the boost performance for every new generation of its 14 nm HEDT processors, so the 100 MHz change between the Core i9-7940X and Core i9-9940X can picture what the Core i9-10940X will attain. The Core i9-9940X can boost up to 4.4 GHz, so expect its successor to reach up to at least 4.5 GHz.