Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Core i9-10900K vs Pentium Gold G6400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900K. The Pentium Gold G6400 outputs less heat than Core i9-10900K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. The Core i9-10900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.