Intel Core i7-3820 vs Intel Pentium Gold G6500. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition Intel Pentium
• Generation
  3 10
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 3000X Intel Pentium G6000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 4.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz No turbo
• CPU Threads
  8 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 630
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.10 GHz
• Execution units
  24
• Shader
  192
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 64 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9.5
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2016

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6500 and Intel Core i7-3820. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333DDR3-1600 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  40 16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i7-3820 and Intel Pentium Gold G6500 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 58 W
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i7-3820 and Intel Core i7-3820, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d (C2 Stepping) VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  10.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sandy Bridge E Comet Lake S
• Technology
  32 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 1200
• Release date
  Q1/2012 Q2/2020