Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 219.02 significantly less expensive
$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1704 points
2463 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3348 points
4049 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1270 points
2003 points
57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1218 points
1926 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.98 points
50.02 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1598 points
3101 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

759 points
873 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1523 points
3648 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

743 points
1251 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
5% slightly lower TDP
57 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

774th of 1,089
636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Core i7-4930MX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4930MX beats the Pentium Gold G5400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-4930MX has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Core i7-4930MX has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4930MX. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4930MX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-4930MX has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The Core i7-4930MX 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 Pentium Gold G5400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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