Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1884 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3637 points

37% slightly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1325 points

1648 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

1596 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.40 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1655 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

804 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 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

58% significantly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W

37% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

288 GiB

125% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

34033% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

775th of 1,114

761st of 1,114

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2010 February

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 E5-620 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-620 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. A Pentium Gold G6400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-620 CPU because of its slightly 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 Pentium Gold G6400 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Pentium Gold G6400 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.