Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points
1839 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points
7% slightly better gaming score
3374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points
1406 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
1350 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
29.86 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
141% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089
753rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Pentium Gold G6400 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1603 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. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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