AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 79.83

$ 144.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

257% significantly better overall score

1794 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

139% significantly better gaming score

3637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

327% significantly better multitasking score

1325 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5488 points

331% significantly better heavy workload score

1273 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

326% significantly higher Blender score

36.40 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

423% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1655 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

804 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.01 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

58 W

12% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

758th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Pentium Gold G6400 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G6400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600X. The Pentium Gold G6400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.