Intel Core i3-10100F vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i3 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 100.00
$ 79.99
$ 20.01 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3491 points
104% significantly better overall score
1704 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5569 points
66% significantly better gaming score
3348 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2875 points
126% significantly better multitasking score
1270 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2761 points
126% significantly better heavy workload score
1218 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

76.92 points
165% significantly higher Blender score
28.98 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4424 points
176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1598 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1401 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
759 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4497 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1523 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1449 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
743 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

483rd of 1,089
774th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i3
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i3-10100F vs Pentium Gold G5400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-10100F is faster than the Pentium Gold G5400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-10100F has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G5400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-10100F. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than Core i3-10100F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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