Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel N97

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1704 points

1707 points

0.18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3348 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3251 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1270 points

1290 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1218 points

1238 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.98 points

33.82 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

796th of 1,118

795th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G5400 vs N97 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the N97 is faster than the Pentium Gold G5400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the N97 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G5400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N97. The info from our database shows that the N97 has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The N97 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.