Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Xeon E5-520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Pentium Gold G5400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G5400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G5400 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. A Pentium Gold G5400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly 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 Xeon E5-520 has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The Xeon E5-520 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.