Intel Core i5-2300 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i5-2300 vs Pentium Gold G6405 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6405 beats the Core i5-2300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2300 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the Core i5-2300 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. But they both have 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 i5-2300. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.