Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-2400

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-2400

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 60.50

$ 19.33 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

1911 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3500 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1462 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1403 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

26.55 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1606 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

551 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

63% significantly lower TDP

95 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

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

737th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-2400 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-2400 performs better than the Pentium Gold G6400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-2400 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2400. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.