Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 7000 Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points
0.73% slightly better overall score
1781 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points
4% slightly better gaming score
3465 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points
1333 points
0.60% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
1279 points
0.47% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points
2215 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points
1047 points
30% 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
66% significantly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
15 W
286% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
256 KiB
100% 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
761st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Athlon 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Athlon Gold 7220U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold G6400 performs better than the Athlon Gold 7220U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Gold 7220U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Gold 7220U. The Athlon Gold 7220U 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 info from our database shows that the Athlon Gold 7220U has 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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