Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 143.28 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

2007 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

3728 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1528 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1468 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

50.68 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

3227 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

1124 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

37% slightly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

300% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6400 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.