AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Pentium Gold G6400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. The Pentium Gold G6400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3700X 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 7 3700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.