Intel Core i7 Q 740 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Core i7 Q 740 vs Pentium Gold G5420T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold G5420T performs better than the Core i7 Q 740. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 740 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5420T. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5420T. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5420T. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5420T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 740. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 740 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5420T. The Core i7 Q 740 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Q 740 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.