Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420

Price

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$ 79.83

$ 275.72 significantly less expensive

$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1794 points

2140 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

22% slightly better gaming score

2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1875 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1814 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

0.33% slightly higher Blender score

36.28 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

1814 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.01 GHz

110% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

63% significantly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

384 GiB

200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

758th of 1,089

697th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Xeon E5-2420 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2420 performs better 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 E5-2420 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2420 CPU because of its significantly 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.