Intel Pentium Gold G6520T vs Intel Pentium Gold G5500T. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 Intel Pentium G5000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  10 8
• 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
  3.6 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 2
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo No turbo

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 12
• Execution units
  24 24
• Generation
  9.5 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 630 Intel UHD Graphics 630
• GPU Turbo
  1100 MHz 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q2/2016 Q4/2017
• Shader
  192 192
• Technology
  14 nm 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 Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold G5500T and Intel Pentium Gold G6520T. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

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

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6520T and Intel Pentium Gold G5500T 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)
  58 W 54 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6520T and Intel Pentium Gold G5500T, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Coffee Lake S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  4 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2021 Q2/2018
• Socket
  LGA 1151 LGA 1151
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d