Intel Core i5-6500 vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 11.33 slightly less expensive

$ 114.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

0.48% slightly better overall score

2278 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

4637 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

4134 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

1961 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46 W

41% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

160 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2.5 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

667th 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

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs Pentium Gold G7400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500 is faster than the Pentium Gold G7400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6500. The info from our database shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.