Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 69.96 significantly less expensive

$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1704 points

3233 points

89% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3348 points

3840 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1270 points

3029 points

138% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1218 points

2968 points

143% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.98 points

60.42 points

108% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1598 points

4080 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

759 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

538 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1523 points

2763 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

743 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

774th of 1,089

507th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Xeon E5-2660 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster 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 Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G5400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G5400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.