Intel Pentium B940 vs Intel Core M-5Y31

Intel Pentium B940
Intel Socket G2 (988B)MOBILE
2000 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jun 2011
Intel Pentium B940
Intel Core M-5Y31
MOBILE
900 MHz / Cores: 2 / Oct 2014
Intel Core M-5Y31

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium B940
    100%
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    129%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium B940
    100%
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    125%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium B940
    100%
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    132%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium B940

None

Reasons to consider Intel Core M-5Y31

Much higher single threaded performance (around 25% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 32% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 29% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core M-5Y31

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core M-5Y31

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core M-5Y31

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core M-5Y31

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


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology (EIST)
Intel 64
XD bit (an NX bit implementation)
Smart Cache.
AVX
EIST
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading

Architecture

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
ArchitectureIntel_SandyBridgevsIntel_Broadwell
MarketMobilevsMobile
Memory SupportDDR3vsDDR4
CodenameSandy BridgevsBroadwell-Y
Release DateJun 2011vsOct 2014

Cores

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
Cores2vs2
Threads2vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsIntel HD (Sandy Bridge)vsIntel HD 5300

Cache

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache2048 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
SocketIntel Socket G2 (988B)vs
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackagerPGAvs
Die Size131mm²vs50mm²
Process32 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium B940Intel Core M-5Y31
Cpu Frequency2000 MHzvs900 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs2400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP35 Wvs5 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium B940
    2000 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    2688 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium B940
    4000 points
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    2419 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark06 CPU

  • Intel Pentium B940
    2034
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    2589

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • Intel Pentium B940
    2609.5
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    3395.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • Intel Pentium B940
    5066.5
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    6563

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium B940
    1.56
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    2.2

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • Intel Pentium B940
    19.9
  • Intel Core M-5Y31
    15.9

seconds - lower is better