Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core i7-975

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i7-975 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-975 beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. 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 i7-975 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Core i7-975 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-975. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-975 CPU because of its significantly 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.