Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Compare Intel 7th 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 89.75
$ 40.24 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points
1785 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points
3540 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points
1329 points
0.08% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points
0.08% slightly better heavy workload score
1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
32.22 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1714 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
842 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
4.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W
13% slightly lower TDP
58 W

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

64 GiB
128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089
760th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i3-7100 vs Pentium Gold G6405 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the Pentium Gold G6405. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6405 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-7100. A Core i3-7100 CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6405 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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