Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i5-4460S

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-4460S specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4460S performs better than the Pentium Gold G6400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-4460S has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Core i5-4460S 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 i5-4460S. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4460S CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.