Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-3612QM

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i7-3612QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3612QM 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 i7-3612QM 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. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM. The Core i7-3612QM outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G6400 thanks to a significantly 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.