Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-2860QM

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i7-2860QM comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2860QM performs better than the Pentium Gold G6400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2860QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6400 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2860QM. The Core i7-2860QM 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.

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.