Intel Pentium Gold 4417U vs Intel Core i7-6820EQ. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Core i7
• Generation
  7 6
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 4400 Intel Core i 6000H

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
  2.30 GHz 2.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes 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 610 Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU frequency
  0.30 GHz 0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  0.95 GHz 1.00 GHz
• Execution units
  12 24
• Shader
  96 192
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9.5 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q3/2015

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6820EQ and Intel Pentium Gold 4417U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 4417U and Intel Core i7-6820EQ to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 45 W
• TDP down
  12.5 W --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 4417U and Intel Pentium Gold 4417U, 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, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  2.00 MB 8.00 MB
• Architecture
  Kaby Lake U Skylake H
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  BGA 1356 BGA 1440
• Release date
  Q1/2019 Q4/2015