Pentium Gold G6400 vs Atom D425

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Primary details

Comparing Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rankingnot rated1693
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
Architecture codenamePineview (2009−2011)Comet Lake (2020)
Release date21 June 2010 (14 years ago)30 April 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$993no data

Detailed specifications

Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 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)
Threads24
Base clock speed1.8 GHz4 GHz
Boost clock speed1.83 GHz4 GHz
Bus rateno data8 GT/s
L1 cache64 KB (per core)64K (per core)
L2 cache512 KB (per core)256K (per core)
L3 cache0 KB4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography45 nm14 nm
Die size66 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature100 °C100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
Number of transistors123 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 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
SocketFCBGA559FCLGA1200
Power consumption (TDP)10 Watt58 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE2, Intel® SSE3, Intel® SSSE3Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)-+
Turbo Boost Technology--
Hyper-Threading Technology++
Idle States-+
Thermal Monitoring-+
Demand Based Switching-no data
PAE32 Bitno data
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
StatusDiscontinuedLaunched

Security technologies

Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-+
EDB++
Secure Keyno data+
Identity Protection-+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® ME
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 are enumerated here.

VT-d-+
VT-x-+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR2, DDR3DDR4-2666
Maximum memory size4 GB128 GB
Max memory channels12
Maximum memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s41.6 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
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Intel GMA 3150Intel UHD Graphics 610
Max video memoryno data64 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Graphics max frequencyno data1.05 GHz
InTru 3Dno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution supportno data+
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4no data4096x2160@30Hz
Max resolution over eDPno data4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPortno data4096x2304@60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXno data12
OpenGLno data4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400.

PCIe versionno data3.0
PCI Express lanesno data16

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Atom D425 199
Pentium Gold G6400 4122
+1971%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 June 2010 30 April 2020
Physical cores 1 2
Threads 2 4
Chip lithography 45 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 10 Watt 58 Watt

Atom D425 has 480% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G6400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 9 years, 100% more physical cores and 100% more threads, and a 221.4% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Atom D425 and Pentium Gold G6400. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Atom D425 is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G6400 is a desktop one.


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