Intel Pentium G3250 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  5 10
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G3000 Intel Pentium G6000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.20 GHz 4.00 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Turbo (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo
• Hyperthreading
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

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

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) Intel HD Graphics 610
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  10 12
• Shader
  80 96
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  7.5 9.5
• DirectX Version
  11.1 12
• Technology
  22 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q3/2016

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and Intel Pentium G3250. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1333 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G3250 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  53 W 58 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G3250 and Intel Pentium G3250, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell S Comet Lake S
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 LGA 1200
• Release date
  Q3/2014 Q2/2020