Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs AMD 8 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
6371 points
256% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3540 points
7734 points
118% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1329 points
5949 points
347% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1277 points
5841 points
357% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.22 points
177.47 points
450% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1714 points
8733 points
409% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

842 points
1846 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz
24% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

58 W
35 W
65% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

760th of 1,089
229th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Ryzen 9 6900HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HS 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 6900HS has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6405 that 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 Ryzen 9 6900HS. The Ryzen 9 6900HS 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.

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