Intel Core i7-6560U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 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

1024 points

1794 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1896 points

3637 points

91% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

786 points

1325 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

757 points

1273 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.31 points

36.40 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2113 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1655 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1011 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

804 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

4.01 GHz

82% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

286% significantly lower TDP

58 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

941st of 1,089

758th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6560U vs Pentium Gold G6400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the Core i7-6560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6560U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6560U. A Core i7-6560U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6400 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-6560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.