Intel Pentium Gold G6420T vs Intel Xeon Silver 4116T. Specifications

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

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

• Base Frequency
  3.4 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 4116T and Intel Pentium Gold G6420T. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 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 G6420T and Intel Xeon Silver 4116T Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  35 W 85 W
• TDP down
  25 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6420T and Intel Xeon Silver 4116T, 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
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q3/2017
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 3647
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d