Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-4702MQ

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i7-4702MQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4702MQ beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4702MQ 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. The Core i7-4702MQ 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4702MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4702MQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Pentium Gold G6400.

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.