Intel Core i7-975 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i7-975 vs Pentium Gold G6405 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Pentium Gold G6405. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-975 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the Core i7-975 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-975. The Pentium Gold G6405 outputs less heat than Core i7-975 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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.