Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Pentium Gold G6405

Core i9-10900K vs Pentium Gold G6405 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900K performs better than the Pentium Gold G6405. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6405 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900K has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 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 i9-10900K. The Pentium Gold G6405 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.

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