AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Pentium Gold G6400 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. 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 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. The Pentium Gold G6400 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.