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Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-12400

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Core i5-12400: game performance, price, value, and specification comparison. Select comparison game parameters.

Key Differences

In short — Core i5-12400 outperforms Pentium Gold G6400 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i5-12400 is 614 days newer than Pentium Gold G6400.

Advantages of Pentium Gold G6400

  • Consumes up to 11% less energy than Intel Core i5-12400 - 58 vs 65 Watts

Advantages of Core i5-12400

  • Performs up to 20% better in Alan Wake 2 than Pentium Gold G6400 - 125 vs 104 FPS
  • Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium Gold G6400 - 12 vs 4 threads
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Alan Wake 2

Alan Wake 2

Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Logo
Pentium Gold G6400

Desktop • Apr 30th, 2020


FPS

104

83%

Value, €/FPS

Price, €

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


FPS

125

100%

Value, €/FPS

€0.94/FPS

100%

Price, €

€117.11

100%

FPS and Value Winner

Intel Core i5-12400 Desktop Processor 18M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz

Buy for 117.11 on Amazon

In Stock

Updated 234 minutes ago

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Resolution

1920 x 1080

Game Graphics

High

Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Logo
Pentium Gold G6400

Desktop • Apr 30th, 2020

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022

Geekbench 5 Benchmarks

Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Logo
Pentium Gold G6400

Desktop • Apr 30th, 2020


Single-Core

805

37%

Multi-Core

1669

19%

Intel Core i5-12400 Logo
Core i5-12400

Desktop • Jan 4th, 2022


Single-Core

2179

100%

Multi-Core

8847

100%

Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Logo

Pentium Gold G6400

vs
Intel Core i5-12400 Logo

Core i5-12400

Apr 30th, 2020Release Date
Jan 4th, 2022
Pentium GoldCollectionCore i5
Comet LakeCodenameAlder Lake
Intel Socket 1200SocketIntel Socket 1700
Desktop
Segment
Desktop
2Cores
6
4Threads
12
4.0 GHz
Base Clock Speed2.5 GHz
Non-TurboTurbo Clock Speed4.4 GHz
58 W
TDP65 W
14 nmProcess Size
10 nm
40.0x
Multiplier25.0x
UHD Graphics 610Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 730
NoOverclockableNo

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