Intel Core i7-4700HQ vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Core i7-4700HQ vs Pentium Gold G7400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4700HQ is faster than the Pentium Gold G7400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G7400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-4700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G7400 that 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 i7-4700HQ.

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 i7-4700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.