Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-4440S

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-4440S benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4440S beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-4440S has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4440S. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4440S CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.