Intel Core i7-930 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i7-930 vs Pentium Gold G6405 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-930 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 i7-930 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-930. The Pentium Gold G6405 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.

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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.