Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 is a 2 core processor. It can handle 4 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q2/2018. The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 is based on the 8. generation of the Intel Pentium series and requires a mainboard with the socket LGA 1151. The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 scores 956 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 2,144 points.
Intel Pentium Gold G5500

CPU lineage

Here you can see which group the Intel Pentium Gold G5500 belongs to and which processor is the predecessor of the Intel Pentium Gold G5500.

Name: Intel Pentium Gold G5500
Family: Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group: Intel Pentium G5000 (8)
Architecture: Coffee Lake S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 8
Predecessor: Intel Pentium G4500
Successor: Intel Pentium Gold G6500

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The 2 CPU cores of the Intel Pentium Gold G5500 clock with 3.80 GHz. The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 3.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): --
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

With the Intel UHD Graphics 630, the Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has an build in graphic solution. It has 24 SM processors, which have a total of 192 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.

GPU name: Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.10 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q4/2017
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 64 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 supports up to 64 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2400
38.4 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

With the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has a TDP of 54 W.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 54 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Gold G5500 has a 4.00 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1151
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 4.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2
Release date: Q2/2018
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Gold G5500 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


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.
Intel Core i3-8140U Intel Core i3-8140U
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
960
Intel Pentium G4600 Intel Pentium G4600
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
958
Intel Processor N200 Intel Processor N200
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
958
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
956
Intel Core i5-10210Y Intel Core i5-10210Y
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
954
Intel Core i5-6685R Intel Core i5-6685R
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
951
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
950

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.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2154
Intel Pentium G4620 Intel Pentium G4620
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
2152
Intel Celeron N5095 Intel Celeron N5095
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2145
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
2144
Intel Celeron G6900T Intel Celeron G6900T
2C 2T @ 2.80 GHz
2140
MediaTek Dimensity 1050 MediaTek Dimensity 1050
8C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
2136
Intel Core i3-10110U Intel Core i3-10110U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
2136

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.
Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
813
Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
810
Samsung Exynos 9820 Samsung Exynos 9820
8C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
810
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
809
Samsung Exynos 1330 Samsung Exynos 1330
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
809
Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Intel Pentium Gold G5420
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
809
Samsung Exynos 9825 Samsung Exynos 9825
8C 8T @ 2.73 GHz
806

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.
Intel Core i7-930 Intel Core i7-930
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1832
Samsung Exynos 1280 Samsung Exynos 1280
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
1829
Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
1823
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1811
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1811
Intel Core i5-2380P Intel Core i5-2380P
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1802
MediaTek Helio G90T MediaTek Helio G90T
8C 8T @ 2.05 GHz
1792

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.
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
354
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
354
Intel Core i7-8550U Intel Core i7-8550U
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
354
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
353
Intel Core i5-7300U Intel Core i5-7300U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
353
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
353
Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2643 v4
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
351

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U AMD Ryzen 7 2700U
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
935
Intel Core i5-4590T Intel Core i5-4590T
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
935
Intel Pentium Silver N6005 Intel Pentium Silver N6005
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
925
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
916
Intel Core i3-8109U Intel Core i3-8109U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
916
Intel Core i3-6100 Intel Core i3-6100
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
916
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
913

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.
Intel Core i5-7500 Intel Core i5-7500
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Core i5-7600T Intel Core i5-7600T
Intel HD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Core i7-6700T Intel Core i7-6700T
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.10 GHz
422
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.10 GHz
422
AMD Athlon Silver Pro 3125GE AMD Athlon Silver Pro 3125GE
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz
422
AMD Athlon Gold Pro 3150G AMD Athlon Gold Pro 3150G
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz
422
AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE AMD Athlon Gold 3150GE
AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz
422

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.
Intel Core i7-6567U Intel Core i7-6567U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
3841
Intel Core i5-6287U Intel Core i5-6287U
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
3833
Intel Core i3-4370 Intel Core i3-4370
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
3830
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
3825
Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Intel Pentium Gold G5420
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
3796
Intel Core i3-7100T Intel Core i3-7100T
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
3796
Intel Core i5-2380P Intel Core i5-2380P
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3794

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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M
28C 56T @ 3.80 GHz
165
AMD Ryzen 7 2700 AMD Ryzen 7 2700
8C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
164
Intel Core i5-1035G1 Intel Core i5-1035G1
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
164
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
163
Intel Core i5-8400 Intel Core i5-8400
6C 6T @ 4.00 GHz
163
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
163
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
163

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.
Intel Core i7-7600U Intel Core i7-7600U
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
417
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
416
Intel Xeon X3440 Intel Xeon X3440
4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz
416
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
414
Intel Core i5-6400T Intel Core i5-6400T
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
414
Intel Core i3-6320 Intel Core i3-6320
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
413
Intel Core i3-1005G1 Intel Core i3-1005G1
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
409

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