Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Pentium G4400

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 307.29
$ 25.99
$ 281.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1941 points
55% significantly better overall score
1247 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3145 points
16% slightly better gaming score
2702 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1583 points
77% significantly better multitasking score
892 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1519 points
77% significantly better heavy workload score
855 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.18 points
109% significantly higher Blender score
13.46 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1182 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

432 points
683 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1449 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1158 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
680 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
300% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.3 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
54 W
140% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
64 GiB
166% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

729th of 1,089
884th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-930 vs Pentium G4400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-930 is faster than the Pentium G4400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-930 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G4400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-930. The Pentium G4400 outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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