Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD FX-8320E

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 98.19 significantly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

2342 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1993 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1917 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

1680 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

63% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs FX-8320E comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E 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 FX-8320E has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the FX-8320E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320E. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8320E has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. The FX-8320E 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.