Intel Core i5-3550 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Compare Intel Core 4 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 298.95
$ 89.75
$ 209.20 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2119 points
18% slightly better overall score
1785 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3894 points
10% slightly better gaming score
3540 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1620 points
21% slightly better multitasking score
1329 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1555 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.36 points
32.22 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1714 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points
842 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
4.1 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
58 W
32% slightly lower TDP

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

702nd of 1,089
760th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-3550 vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550 beats the Pentium Gold G6405 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6405 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-3550 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6405 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3550. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i5-3550 thanks to a slightly 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 i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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