Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Pentium G4400

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2028.00
$ 25.99
$ 2002.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1149 points
1247 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2264 points
2702 points
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

853 points
892 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points
855 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.15 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
13.46 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1720 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1182 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

872 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
683 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1695 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1158 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

881 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
680 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
100% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.3 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
259% significantly lower TDP
54 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
64 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
Identical
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,089
884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Core i7-5500U vs Pentium G4400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G4400 is faster than the Core i7-5500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-5500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5500U. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium G4400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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