Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs Intel Pentium Gold G7400

Core i7-6820HQ vs Pentium Gold G7400 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6820HQ beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in overall performance. 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 i7-6820HQ 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6820HQ.

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 i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.