Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i7-870 vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the Pentium Gold G6405 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-870 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6405 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-870. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.