Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  10 4
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
• 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
  4 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 8
• CPU Threads
  4 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - 4 GHz

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
  Intel HD Graphics 610 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz No turbo
• 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
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5800 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  16 20
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800 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 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  58 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and AMD Ryzen 7 5800, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 32 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q2/2021
• Socket
  LGA 1200 AM4
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM