Intel Core i5-2500K vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Core i5-2500K vs Pentium Gold G7400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G7400 beats the Core i5-2500K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2500K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-2500K has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G7400 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K.

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 i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.