Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Core i5-6500TE specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500TE is faster than the Pentium Gold G6405. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6405 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6500TE has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6405 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6500TE. The Core i5-6500TE outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G6405 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 G6405 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.