Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Core i7-8550U vs Pentium Gold G5400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Pentium Gold G5400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G5400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-8550U has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The Core i7-8550U also has significantly more 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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.