Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-3550

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.83
$ 219.12 significantly less expensive
$ 298.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points
2119 points
18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points
3894 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points
1620 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
1555 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
27.36 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points
1924 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
645 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
32% slightly lower TDP
77 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
702nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-3550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3550 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 i5-3550 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6400 that has 2 cores. 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 i5-3550. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-3550 CPU because of its slightly 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.

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