Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i7-960 vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 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 i7-960 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. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-960. The Pentium Gold G6405 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.

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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.