Intel Core i3-550 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i3-550 vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6405 beats the Core i3-550 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-550 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-550. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i3-550 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. 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 i3-550 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.