Intel Core i5-7500 vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Compare Intel 7th 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 73.80
$ 41.16 significantly less expensive
$ 114.96

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points
7% slightly better overall score
2278 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points
4637 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3533 points
4134 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1283 points
1961 points
52% significantly 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

3.4 GHz
3.7 GHz
8% 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

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

637th of 1,089
667th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-7500 vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-7500 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 i5-7500 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G7400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. 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 i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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