Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i7-3820QM specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3820QM is faster 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 i7-3820QM has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Core i7-3820QM has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM. The Core i7-3820QM 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.