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Key Differences
In short — Core i7-6950X outperforms the cheaper Pentium Gold G5400 on the selected game parameters. However, the worse performing Pentium Gold G5400 is a better bang for your buck. The better performing Core i7-6950X is 671 days older than the cheaper Pentium Gold G5400.
Advantages of Intel Core i7-6950X
- Performs up to 9% better in Minecraft than Pentium Gold G5400 - 689 vs 631 FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium Gold G5400 - 20 vs 4 threads
Advantages of Intel Pentium Gold G5400
- Up to 92% cheaper than Core i7-6950X - $50.0 vs $651.07
- Up to 91% better value when playing Minecraft than Core i7-6950X - $0.08 vs $0.94 per FPS
- Consumes up to 59% less energy than Intel Core i7-6950X - 58 vs 140 Watts
- Works without a dedicated GPU, while Intel Core i7-6950X doesn't have integrated graphics
Minecraft
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
High
Core i7-6950X
Desktop • May 31st, 2016
FPS
689
100%
Value, $/FPS
$0.94/FPS
8.510638297872342%
Price, $
$651.07
7%
FPS Winner
Intel BX80671I76950X Boxed Core i7-6950X Processor Extreme Edition (25M Cache, up to 3.50 GHz) 3.0 10
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Pentium Gold G5400
Desktop • Apr 2nd, 2018
FPS
631
91.58200290275762%
Value, $/FPS
$0.08/FPS
100%
Price, $
$50
100%
Value Winner
Intel® Pentium® Gold G5400 Desktop Processor 2 Core 3.7GHz LGA1151 300 Series 54W/58W BX80684G5400
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TOP 5 Games
Resolution
1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
High
Core i7-6950X
Desktop • May 31st, 2016
Pentium Gold G5400
Desktop • Apr 2nd, 2018
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Pentium Gold G5400
Desktop • Apr 2nd, 2018
Single-Core
731
56.447876447876446%
Multi-Core
1504
17.805137918787736%
Intel Core i7-6950X | vs | Intel Pentium Gold G5400 |
|---|---|---|
| May 31st, 2016 | Release Date | Apr 2nd, 2018 |
| Core i7 | Collection | Pentium Gold |
| Broadwell-E | Codename | Coffee Lake |
| Intel Socket 2011-3 | Socket | Intel Socket 1151 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
10 | Cores | 2 |
20 | Threads | 4 |
| 3.0 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 3.7 GHz |
| 3.5 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | Non-Turbo |
| 140 W | TDP | 58 W |
| 14 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
| 30.0x | Multiplier | 37.0x |
| None | Integrated Graphics | UHD Graphics 610 |
Yes | Overclockable | No |
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