Intel Pentium Gold G6400E vs Intel Xeon Silver 4116. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 Intel Xeon Silver 4100
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Xeon Silver
• Generation
  10 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Xeon Silver 4216

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

• Base Frequency
  3.8 GHz 2.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 12
• CPU Threads
  4 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 2.6 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 Intel Xeon Silver 4116 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400E. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  16 48
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6400E and Intel Xeon Silver 4116 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  58 W 85 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6400E and Intel Xeon Silver 4116, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Skylake SP
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q3/2017
• Socket
  LGA 1200 LGA 3647
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d