PC World - USA (2020-04)

58 PCWorld APRIL 2020

REVIEWS LENOVO YOGA C940 14

that matter—but it’s way ahead of laptops

with weaker chips. (The MSI Prestige 14’s

excellent performance seems like an

anomaly here.)

Cinebench results are slightly murkier, if

only because Dell’s XPS 13 and MSI’s Prestige

14 really stand out on multi-threaded

The Iris Pro graphics in Intel’s 10th-gen Core-i7

CPU allow you to do a little more gaming than you

used to.

M(Balanced)SI Prestige 14

Core i7-10710U

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390

Core i7-1065G7

HP Spectre x360 13T (2019)

Core i7-1065G7

Lenovo Yoga C940-14

Core i7-1065G7

WM 142 almart Motile

Ryzen 5 3500U

Acer SwCore i5-1035G1ift 3

Lenovo C740-14IML

Core i5-10210U

Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 6-14

Core i5-8250U

Acer Sw(2019) ift 7

Core i7-8500Y

3DMarkSky Diver 1.0

Overall

Demo mode off

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

17,4 0 6

6,932

9,287

9,80 4

6,226

8,995

4,151

3,353

4,574

As Cinebench shows, the Yoga C940 14 doesn’t

rush to ramp up multi-threaded performance.

Dell XPS 13 2-in-1

(^7390) Core i7-1065G7
MPrestige 14 SI
(Balanced)Core i7-10710U
Cinebench R15.038
All threads
788
184
Single thread Multi thread
726
17 7
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE
HP Spectre x360 13T
(2019)Core i7-1065G7
Lenovo Yo g a
C940-14Core i7-1065G7
714
184
678
179
Lenovo C740-
14IMCore i5-10210UL
WMotile almart
MRyzen 5 3500U 142
670
195
688
145
Acer Sw 3 ift
Core i5-1035G1
Lenovo IdeaPad
Flex 6-14Core i5-8250U
562
169
526
145
Acer Sw 7 ift
(2019)Core i7-8500Y^132261
performance. One theory: Based on actual
use, the Yoga C940 runs cool and quiet
nearly all the time, kicking its fans into high
gear only under extremely heavy workloads.
Given that Cinebench tests short, bursty
performance, Lenovo may be slightly more
reserved about cranking its CPU so quickly.
While the Lenovo Yoga C940 14 is not a
gaming machine, Intel’s Iris Plus graphics
improvements in 10th-gen CPUs do make a