Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 89.75
$ 139.93 significantly less expensive
$ 229.68

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1785 points
12643 points
608% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3540 points
14524 points
310% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1329 points
11994 points
802% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1277 points
11755 points
820% significantly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Pentium Gold G6405 and the Core Ultra 5 245K? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.22 points
321.20 points
896% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
14
599% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
14
250% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
4.2 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
24
49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
192 GiB
49% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

760th of 1,089
46th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Core Ultra 5 245K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 245K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 245K has 14 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Gold G6405.

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

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular CPU Comparisons