Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-2760QM

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 i7-2760QM

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 42.19 significantly less expensive

$ 122.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

2123 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3444 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1738 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1671 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

33.27 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

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

528 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

67% significantly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

45 W

28% slightly lower TDP

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

701st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2011 November

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 i7-2760QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2760QM 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2760QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2760QM. The Core i7-2760QM outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G6400 thanks to a 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.