Intel Core i3-8130U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Compare Intel 8th 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 G6400

Price

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$ 639.00

$ 79.83

$ 559.17 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1216 points

1794 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2360 points

3637 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

910 points

1325 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

872 points

1273 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.90 points

36.40 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1655 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

804 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

2.2 GHz

4.01 GHz

82% 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

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

Identical

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

Identical

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

897th of 1,089

758th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8130U vs Pentium Gold G6400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U 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 G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. A Core i3-8130U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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 i3-8130U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.