Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

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

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Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Price

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$ 150.00

$ 79.99

$ 70.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

17% slightly better overall score

1704 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

3348 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

1270 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

1218 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

28.98 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1700 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1598 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

503 points

759 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1523 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

743 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.7 GHz

15% 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

49% significantly more memory channels

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

719th of 1,089

774th of 1,089

Family

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Core

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-960 vs Pentium Gold G5400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Pentium Gold G5400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-960 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G5400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-960. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than Core i7-960 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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.