Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Core i7-3930K vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G7400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G7400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G7400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3930K. The Pentium Gold G7400 outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.