Intel Atom C5125 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Atom C5000 Intel Pentium G6000
• Family
  Intel Atom Intel Pentium
• Generation
  6 10
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.8 GHz 4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  8x -
• CPU Cores
  8 2
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  - No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 12
• Generation
  - 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 610
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 32 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2016
• Shader
  - 96
• Technology
  - 14 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and Intel Atom C5125. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  3.0 x 32 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Atom C5125 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  100 °C 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  50 W 58 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Atom C5125 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Parker Ridge Comet Lake S
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, Intel QAT SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L2-Cache
  9 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 4 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q2/2020
• Socket
  BGA 2106 LGA 1200
• Technology
  10 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d