Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-2500K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500K beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-2500K has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2500K 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.