Pentium Gold 6405U vs Athlon 700

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated2047
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataIntel Comet Lake
Power efficiencyno data10.85
Architecture codenameThunderbird (1999−2000)Comet Lake-U (2019−2020)
Release date29 November 1999 (25 years ago)31 October 2019 (5 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$849$161

Detailed specifications

Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads14
Base clock speedno data2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed0.7 GHz2.4 GHz
Bus rateno data4 GT/s
L1 cache128 KB256 KB
L2 cache512 KB1 MB
L3 cache0 KB2 MB
Chip lithography180 nm14 nm
Die size102 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)70 °Cno data
Number of transistors22 millionno data
64 bit support-+
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
SocketAFCBGA1528
Power consumption (TDP)34 Watt15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Flex Memory Accessno data+

Security technologies

Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data-
EDBno data+
Secure Keyno data+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data37.5 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardN/AIntel UHD Graphics for 10th Gen Intel Processors
Max video memoryno data32 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequencyno data950 MHz

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
eDPno data+
DisplayPort-+
HDMI-+
DVIno data+

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2304@24Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U.

PCIe versionno data2.0
PCI Express lanesno data12

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 November 1999 31 October 2019
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 1 4
Chip lithography 180 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 34 Watt 15 Watt

Pentium Gold 6405U has an age advantage of 19 years, 100% more physical cores and 300% more threads, a 1185.7% more advanced lithography process, and 126.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Athlon 700 and Pentium Gold 6405U. We've got no test results to judge.

Note that Athlon 700 is a desktop processor while Pentium Gold 6405U is a notebook one.


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