Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs Intel N97

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel 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

1785 points

4% slightly better overall score

1707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3540 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3251 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1329 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1290 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1277 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1238 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.22 points

33.82 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz

104% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

760th of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Pentium Gold G6405 vs N97 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6405 is faster than the N97. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the N97 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the N97 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 N97.

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.