Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Core i7-4712MQ specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4712MQ beats the Pentium Gold G5400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Core i7-4712MQ has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4712MQ. The Core i7-4712MQ outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G5400 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Pentium Gold G5400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4712MQ has significantly more L3 cache 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.