Intel Core i5-2320 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Core i5-2320 vs Pentium Gold G5400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2320 beats the Pentium Gold G5400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-2320 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G5400 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2320. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than Core i5-2320 thanks to a significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-2320 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.