Intel Core i3-7130U 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

976 points
1785 points
82% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1947 points
3540 points
81% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

724 points
1329 points
83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

695 points
1277 points
83% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.54 points
32.22 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1774 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1714 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
3% slightly 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

2.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
51% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
286% significantly lower TDP
58 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

957th 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 May
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-7130U vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6405 is faster than the Core i3-7130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7130U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7130U. A Core i3-7130U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6405 CPU because of its significantly 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 i3-7130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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