Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs Intel Core i7-4910MQ

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 89.75
$ 260.13 significantly less expensive
$ 349.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1785 points
1998 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3540 points
8% slightly better gaming score
3258 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1329 points
1623 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1277 points
1556 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.22 points
51.36 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1714 points
3398 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

842 points
1126 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed
2.90 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
47 W
23% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
Identical
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

760th of 1,089
717th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Core i7-4910MQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4910MQ is faster than the Pentium Gold G6405. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6405 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-4910MQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6405 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4910MQ. The Core i7-4910MQ outputs less heat than Pentium Gold G6405 thanks to a slightly 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.

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