Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 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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Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 89.75

$ 13.88 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

28% slightly better overall score

1785 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

20% slightly better gaming score

3540 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

1329 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

1277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

32.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1714 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

842 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

4.1 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

760th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs Pentium Gold G6405 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500 is faster than the Pentium Gold G6405. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6405 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6405 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i5-6500 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 i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.