Intel Core i3-4170 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i3 2 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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Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Price

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$ 41.60

$ 38.39 significantly less expensive

$ 79.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1489 points

1704 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2858 points

3348 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1121 points

1270 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1076 points

1218 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.13 points

28.98 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2036 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1598 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1049 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

759 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2163 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1523 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1119 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

743 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

Identical

54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

811th of 1,089

774th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i3

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-4170 vs Pentium Gold G5400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G5400 beats the Core i3-4170 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-4170 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i3-4170 and Pentium Gold G5400 have the same clock speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.