Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs Intel Pentium Silver J5040. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G6000 Intel Pentium J5000/N5000
• Family
  Intel Pentium Intel Pentium
• Generation
  10 9
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• Base Frequency
  4 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 2.4 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
  12 18
• Generation
  9.5 9.5
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 250 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 610 Intel UHD Graphics 605
• GPU Turbo
  1050 MHz 800 MHz
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  32 GB 8 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2016 Q4/2017
• Shader
  96 144
• 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 Silver J5040 and Intel Pentium Gold G6400. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 8 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2400LPDDR4-2400
• PCIe lanes
  16 6
• PCIe version
  3.0 2.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and Intel Pentium Silver J5040 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 -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  58 W 10 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium Gold G6400 and Intel Pentium Silver J5040, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Comet Lake S Gemini Lake
• 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
  Q2/2020 Q4/2019
• Socket
  LGA 1200 BGA 1090
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d