Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Core i7-950 vs Pentium Gold G5400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G5400 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G5400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than Core i7-950 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.