Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 vs Intel Pentium Gold 4417U

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Intel Pentium Gold 4417U

CPU comparison

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 or Intel Pentium Gold 4417U - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.40 GHz. Up to 4 GB of memory is supported in 1 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 was released in Q3/2015.

The Intel Pentium Gold 4417U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.30 GHz. The CPU supports up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold 4417U was released in Q1/2019.
Qualcomm Snapdragon (102) Family Intel Pentium (150)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (4) CPU group Intel Pentium 4400 (5)
2 Generation 7
Cortex-A53 Architecture Kaby Lake U
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 1.40 GHz. The Intel Pentium Gold 4417U has 2 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.30 GHz.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
4 Cores 2
4 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
1.40 GHz Frequency 2.30 GHz
-- Turbo Frequency (1 Core) --
-- Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
Qualcomm AI engine AI hardware --
Hexagon QDSP6 AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.

Qualcomm Adreno 306 GPU Intel HD Graphics 610
0.40 GHz GPU frequency 0.30 GHz
0.40 GHz GPU (Turbo) 0.95 GHz
3 GPU Generation 9.5
28 nm Technology 14 nm
0 Max. displays 3
-- Compute units 12
24 Shader 96
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 32 GB
11 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Qualcomm Adreno 306 GPU Intel HD Graphics 610
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 supports a maximum of 4 GB of memory in 1 memory channels. The Intel Pentium Gold 4417U can connect up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
LPDDR3-1066, LPDDR2-1066 Memory LPDDR3-1866, DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600
4 GB Max. Memory 32 GB
1 (Single Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
4.3 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 34.1 GB/s
No ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
-- L3 Cache 2.00 MB
-- PCIe version 3.0
-- PCIe lanes 12
-- PCIe Bandwidth 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 has a TDP of --, that of the Intel Pentium Gold 4417U is 15 W.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
-- TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down 12.5 W
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 has a 0.00 MB cache, while the Intel Pentium Gold 4417U cache has a total of 2.00 MB.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Characteristic Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
28 nm Technology 14 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
Armv8-A (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
-- ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
-- Socket BGA 1356
None Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
No AES-NI Yes
Android Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2015 Release date Q1/2019
-- Release price 161 $
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
Qualcomm Adreno 306 @ 0.40 GHz
19 (11%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 0.95 GHz
182 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
246 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
647 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
571 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1233 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
480 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
971 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
201 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
469 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
2285 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
90 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Qualcomm Snapdragon 412
4C 4T @ 1.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Pentium Gold 4417U Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
229 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Qualcomm Snapdragon 412 Intel Pentium Gold 4417U
Unknown HP 17-by0603ng
HP Chromebook x360 14-da0000ng
HP Chromebook 15-de0000ng
Acer Chromebook Spin 13 CP713-1WN-P86X

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