Intel Core i7-1060G7 vs AMD Athlon X4 940

Intel Core i7-1060G7
Intel BGA1440MOBILE
1000 MHz / Cores: 4 / Aug 2019
Intel Core i7-1060G7
AMD Athlon X4 940
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2017
AMD Athlon X4 940

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-1060G7

53 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon X4 940.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon X4 940

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Core i7-1060G7

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-1060G7

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Athlon X4 940

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Athlon X4 940

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
3DNow!
SSE4
SSE4.1
SSE4A
AMD64
AES
FMA4
TBM
XOP
AMD-V
EVP
Turbo Core

Architecture

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
ArchitectureIntel_IcelakevsAMD Excavator
MarketMobilevsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameIce Lake-YvsBristol Ridge
Release DateAug 2019vsJul 2017

Cores

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
Cores4vs4
Threads8vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIris PlusvsNo

Cache

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
L1 Cache64K (per core)vs128 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256K (per core)vs512 KB (per core)
L3 Cache8MB (shared)vs0 KB

Physical

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
SocketIntel BGA1440vsAMD Socket AM4
Max Case Temp72°Cvs74°C
PackageFC-BGA1440vsuPGA
Die Sizeunknownvs246mm²
Process10 nmvs28 nm

Performance

Intel Core i7-1060G7AMD Athlon X4 940
Cpu Frequency1000 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock3800 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avs1.475 V
TDP12 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i7-1060G7
    4560 points
  • AMD Athlon X4 940
    2484 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Core i7-1060G7
    5760 points
  • AMD Athlon X4 940
    7683 points

Points - higher is better