Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Compare Intel Xeon 4 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 375.00
$ 79.99
$ 295.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1617 points
1704 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points
3348 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points
1270 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points
1218 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2417 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1598 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

607 points
759 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
3.7 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
54 W
140% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
64 GiB
166% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

785th of 1,089
774th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon W3580 vs Pentium Gold G5400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G5400 is faster than the Xeon W3580. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G5400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G5400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3580. The Pentium Gold G5400 outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon W3580 has more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400. The Xeon W3580 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 Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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