Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Core i5-8259U vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8259U beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-8259U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8259U. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G7400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8259U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.