Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Core 2 Quad Q9550 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G5400 is faster than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Quad Q9550 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Quad Q9550. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Quad Q9550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G5400

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.