Intel Core i7-4700MQ vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2226 points
2278 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3615 points
4637 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1813 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
1677 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1735 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3110 points
4134 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1019 points
1961 points
92% 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

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.40 GHz
3.7 GHz
54% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W
46 W
2% 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

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
2.5 MiB
900% 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

676th of 1,089
667th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4700MQ vs Pentium Gold G7400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G7400 is faster than the Core i7-4700MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4700MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4700MQ 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G7400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4700MQ. The info from our database shows that the Pentium Gold G7400 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4700MQ. 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 i7-4700MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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