Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

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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Price

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$ 2749.00
$ 89.75
$ 2659.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1166 points
1785 points
53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2340 points
3540 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

858 points
1329 points
54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

820 points
1277 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.09 points
32.22 points
39% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.1 GHz
57% 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

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

32 GiB
128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

908th of 1,089
760th 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
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6600U vs Pentium Gold G6405 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6405 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G6405 CPU because of its 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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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