Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel N97

Pentium Gold G6400 vs N97 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the N97. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N97 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the N97 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N97. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the N97 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. The N97 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.