Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Core i7-12700 vs Pentium Gold G6400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12700. The Pentium Gold G6400 outputs less heat than Core i7-12700 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.