Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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
$ 74.99
$ 5.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1704 points
5931 points
248% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3348 points
7969 points
138% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1270 points
5267 points
314% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1218 points
5102 points
318% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.98 points
141.88 points
389% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1598 points
7589 points
374% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

759 points
1833 points
141% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1523 points
7653 points
402% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

743 points
1872 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W
20% slightly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
3 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

774th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Pentium Gold G5400 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 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 Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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