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AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i7-940

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 3 1200

Rank 2 - 60 %

Intel Core i7-940

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 3 1200

Rank 2 - 66 %

Intel Core i7-940

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,073

4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

568

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

3,064

4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz

1,890

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

800

4C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

537

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 3.10 GHz

2,574

4C / 8T · 2.93 GHz

2,253

More benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
Family	AMD Ryzen 3 (34)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	AMD Ryzen 1000 (15)	Intel Core i7 900 (7)
Architecture	Summit Ridge (Zen)	Bloomfield
Technology	14 nm	45 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	AM4 (PGA 1331)	LGA 1366
Predecessor
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	4x
Frequency:	3.10 GHz	2.93 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.40 GHz	3.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.10 GHz
L2-Cache	2.00 MB	1.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
GPU name	no iGPU	no iGPU
GPU frequency
CUs / Shader	/	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays
Max. GPU Memory
Technology
Release date

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR3-1066 (25.6 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	3
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	3.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
TDP	65 W	130 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	AMD Ryzen 3 1200	Intel Core i7-940
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3	SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date	Q1/2017	Q4/2008
Release price	120 $	305 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD Ryzen 3 1200 is 3.4 stars (25 ratings), while Intel Core i7-940 has received 5.0 stars (2 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD Ryzen 3 1200
4C / 4T · 3.10 - 3.40 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-940
4C / 8T · 2.93 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★