Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 cores with 4 threads and is based on the 10. gen of the Intel Pentium series. The processor uses a mainboard with the LGA 1200 socket and was released in Q2/2020. The Intel Pentium Gold G6400 scores 1,032 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 2,184 points.
Intel Pentium Gold G6400

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Pentium Gold G6400.

Name: Intel Pentium Gold G6400
Family: Intel Pentium (150)
CPU group: Intel Pentium G6000 (12)
Architecture: Comet Lake S
Segment: Desktop / Server
Generation: 10
Predecessor: Intel Pentium Gold G5400
Successor: Intel Pentium Gold G7400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Pentium Gold G6400 has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Pentium Gold G6400 is 4.00 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 4.00 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): --
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): --

Internal Graphics

The Intel Pentium Gold G6400 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Pentium Gold G6400 uses the Intel HD Graphics 610, which has 96 texture shaders and 12 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 610
GPU frequency: 0.35 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.05 GHz
Compute units: 12
Shader: 96
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q3/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Frame Generation: No

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.

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 processor can use up to 128 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 42.7 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2666
42.7 GB/s
Max. Memory: 128 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: Yes
PCIe: 3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth: 15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 58 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 58 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Pentium Gold G6400 is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 4.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: LGA 1200
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: Q2/2020
Release price: 77 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Pentium Gold G6400 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.
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6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
1034
Intel Xeon D-2796TE Intel Xeon D-2796TE
20C 40T @ 3.10 GHz
1034
Intel Core i7-7567U Intel Core i7-7567U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1033
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1032
AMD Athlon 300GE AMD Athlon 300GE
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1032
Intel Xeon Gold 6150 Intel Xeon Gold 6150
18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz
1031
Intel Xeon Gold 6138T Intel Xeon Gold 6138T
20C 40T @ 3.70 GHz
1030

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.
Intel Celeron N5095A Intel Celeron N5095A
4C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
2197
Intel Pentium Gold G5600 Intel Pentium Gold G5600
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
2190
Intel Pentium Gold G5600F Intel Pentium Gold G5600F
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
2190
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
2184
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
2182
MediaTek Dimensity 800 MediaTek Dimensity 800
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
2176
Intel Core i3-7300T Intel Core i3-7300T
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2174

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 Core i5-4310U Intel Core i5-4310U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
858
Apple A10 Fusion Apple A10 Fusion
4C 4T @ 2.34 GHz
853
Intel Core m3-7Y30 Intel Core m3-7Y30
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
851
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
849
Samsung Exynos 1280 Samsung Exynos 1280
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
845
Intel Core i5-5200U Intel Core i5-5200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
845
Intel Core i5-5250U Intel Core i5-5250U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
845

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 G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1811
Intel Pentium Gold G5500 Intel Pentium Gold G5500
2C 4T @ 3.80 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 i3-7300 Intel Core i3-7300
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
419
Intel Core i7-8750H Intel Core i7-8750H
6C 12T @ 4.10 GHz
419
Intel Xeon W-3175X Intel Xeon W-3175X
28C 56T @ 3.80 GHz
417
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
415
Intel Core i5-10600T Intel Core i5-10600T
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
415
Intel Core i5-8365UE Intel Core i5-8365UE
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
415
Intel Xeon W-3225 Intel Xeon W-3225
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
415

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.
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Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz
202
Intel Pentium G4560 Intel Pentium G4560
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz
202
Intel Pentium G4560T Intel Pentium G4560T
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz
202
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
Intel HD Graphics 610 @ 1.05 GHz
202
Intel Celeron N6210 Intel Celeron N6210
Intel UHD Graphics 10th Gen (16 EU) @ 0.75 GHz
200
Intel Celeron N6211 Intel Celeron N6211
Intel UHD Graphics 10th Gen (16 EU) @ 0.75 GHz
200
Intel Atom x6211E Intel Atom x6211E
Intel UHD Graphics 10th Gen (16 EU) @ 0.75 GHz
200

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 i5-2500 Intel Core i5-2500
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
4150
Intel Core i3-6100 Intel Core i3-6100
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
4148
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
4132
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
4129
Intel Core i5-7287U Intel Core i5-7287U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
4129
Intel Core i5-2550k Intel Core i5-2550k
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
4120
AMD Phenom II X4 B99 AMD Phenom II X4 B99
4C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
4112

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-3330 Intel Core i5-3330
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1201
Intel Core i7-2670QM Intel Core i7-2670QM
4C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1201
Intel Core i5-2320 Intel Core i5-2320
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1194
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1182
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
1151
Intel Core i5-2310 Intel Core i5-2310
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
1151
Intel Core i5-2300 Intel Core i5-2300
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
1119

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.
AMD Ryzen 3 4300U AMD Ryzen 3 4300U
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
167
Intel Core i5-8350U Intel Core i5-8350U
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
167
Intel Core i7-8550U Intel Core i7-8550U
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
167
Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Intel Pentium Gold G6400
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
166
Intel Xeon W-2123 Intel Xeon W-2123
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
166
Intel Xeon W-2133 Intel Xeon W-2133
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
166
Intel Core i7-7820HK Intel Core i7-7820HK
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
166

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 i5-4570R Intel Core i5-4570R
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
419
Intel Core i3-1115G4 Intel Core i3-1115G4
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
417
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

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