Intel Pentium Gold G7400 vs Intel Pentium Gold 8500. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G7000 Intel Pentium Gold 8000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  11 12
• Predecessor
  Intel Pentium Gold G6400 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• A-Core
  2x Golden Cove 1x Golden Cove
• B-Core
  - 4x Gracemont
• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz -
• Core architecture
  normal hybrid (big.LITTLE)
• CPU Cores
  2 5
• CPU Threads
  4 6
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• A-Core Frequency
  - 1.00 GHz (4.40 GHz)
• B-Core Frequency
  - 0.70 GHz (3.30 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 12
• Execution units
  16 48
• Generation
  13 12
• GPU Frequency
  300 MHz 200 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 710 Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (48 EU)
• GPU Turbo
  1350 MHz 800 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2020
• Shader
  128 384
• Technology
  14 nm 10 nm

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

• AV1
  Decode Decode
• 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
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold 8500 and Intel Pentium Gold G7400. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2 (Dual Channel)
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200DDR5-4800 DDR4-3200DDR5-4800LPDDR4X-4266LPDDR5-5200
• PCIe
  5.0 x 20 4.0 x 14
• Memory Bandwidth
  - 76.8 GB/s

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G7400 and Intel Pentium Gold 8500 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 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  46 W -
• TDP (PL2)
  - 29 W
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  - 9 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G7400 and Intel Pentium Gold 8500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Alder Lake S Alder Lake U
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  2.5 MB 3.25 MB
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 8 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q1/2022
• Socket
  LGA 1700 BGA 1744
• Technology
  10 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Chip design
  - Monolithic
• Documents
  - Technical data sheet