Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs Intel Core i3-6100

Intel Pentium Gold G5400
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2018
Intel Pentium Gold G5400
Intel Core i3-6100
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 2 / Sep 2015
Intel Core i3-6100

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400
    124%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400
    103%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400
    146%
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 46% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 24% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-6100

None

Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium Gold G5400

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
HT
SSE4.1
Hyper-Threading

Architecture

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
ArchitectureIntel_CoffelakevsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3, DDR4
CodenameCoffee LakevsSkylake
Release DateApr 2018vsSep 2015

Cores

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
Cores2vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 630vsIntel HD 530

Cache

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
L1 Cache64 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache6144 KB (shared)vs4096 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
SocketIntel Socket 1151vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Temp72°Cvs65°C
PackageFC-LGA1151vs
Die Sizeunknownvs150mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium Gold G5400Intel Core i3-6100
Cpu Frequency3700 MHzvs3700 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP51 Wvs51 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400
    4440 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    4255 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400
    10656 points
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    10297 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400 (simulated)
    159.02
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • Intel Pentium Gold G5400 (simulated)
    470.67
  • Intel Core i3-6100
    321

points - higher is better