Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 69.49 significantly less expensive

$ 149.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1704 points

6416 points

276% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3348 points

8665 points

158% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1270 points

5694 points

348% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1218 points

5516 points

352% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.98 points

139.36 points

380% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1523 points

7974 points

423% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

743 points

2039 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.59 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

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

Identical

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

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600GT performs better than the Pentium Gold G5400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G5400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium Gold G5400. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600GT CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G5400. The Ryzen 5 5600GT 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.