Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 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
$ 88.27 significantly less expensive
$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1785 points
2342 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3540 points
2% slightly better gaming score
3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1329 points
1993 points
49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1277 points
1917 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.22 points
36.00 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1714 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1680 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

842 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
437 points

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
28% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
63% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

760th of 1,089
651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Pentium Gold G6405 vs FX-8320E benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better 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 FX-8320E has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the FX-8320E has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6405. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8320E. A Pentium Gold G6405 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E 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 G6405 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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