Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Athlon 3000G

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

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Price

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$ 79.83
$ 69.99
$ 9.84 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points
21% slightly better overall score
1477 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points
32% slightly better gaming score
2742 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
1135 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score
1095 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
31.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points
1970 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points
956 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
35 W
65% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
192 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089
813th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Athlon Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Athlon 3000G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the Athlon 3000G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 3000G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon 3000G. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G6400 thanks to a significantly 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 Athlon 3000G has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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