Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-14400F

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-14400F

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 143.86 significantly less expensive

$ 223.69

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

8601 points

379% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

11043 points

203% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

7824 points

490% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

7622 points

498% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

193.46 points

431% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

11074 points

569% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

2320 points

188% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

400% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

9.5 MiB

1800% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

20 MiB

400% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

120th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-14400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-14400F is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14400F. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Core i5-14400F also has significantly more 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.