Intel Pentium Gold 6405U vs Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium 6000 Intel Pentium G6000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  10 10
• Segment
  Mobile Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  2.4 GHz 4 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
  12 12
• Generation
  9.5 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  300 MHz 350 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel UHD Graphics 610 Intel HD Graphics 610
• GPU Turbo
  950 MHz 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q3/2016
• Shader
  96 96
• 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 G6400 and Intel Pentium Gold 6405U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400LPDDR3-2133 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  12 16
• PCIe version
  2.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold 6405U and Intel Pentium Gold G6400 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)
  15 W 58 W
• TDP down
  12.5 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold 6405U and Intel Pentium Gold G6400, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake U Comet 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
  2 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2019 Q2/2020
• Socket
  BGA 1528 LGA 1200
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d