Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 679.16 significantly less expensive

$ 758.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

17900 points

897% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

16115 points

343% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

18547 points

1299% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

18824 points

1378% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

555.81 points

1426% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

22613 points

1266% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

3204 points

298% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

1100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

192 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

40 MiB

7900% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

36 MiB

800% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

4th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core Ultra 9 285K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 9 285K is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 9 285K. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. The Core Ultra 9 285K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.