Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Celeron G5905

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

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Intel Celeron G5905

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 73.97

$ 5.86 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

23% slightly better overall score

1456 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3182 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1038 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

996 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

97% significantly higher Blender score

18.47 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1263 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

738 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

Identical

58 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

820th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Celeron G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Celeron G5905 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold G6400 performs better than the Celeron G5905. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Celeron G5905 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Celeron G5905. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.