Pentium Gold G7400 vs Ryzen 5 4500U

Place in the ranking	1025	1381
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop processor
Series	AMD Renoir (Ryzen 4000 APU)	no data
Power efficiency	43.28	8.72
Architecture codename	Renoir-U (Zen 2) (2020−2021)	Alder Lake-S (2022)
Release date	6 January 2020 (4 years ago)	4 January 2022 (2 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 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 cores	6 (Hexa-Core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	6	4
Base clock speed	2.3 GHz	3.7 GHz
Boost clock speed	4 GHz	3.7 GHz
Multiplier	23	no data
L1 cache	64 KB (per core)	80K (per core)
L2 cache	512 KB (per core)	1.25 MB (per core)
L3 cache	8 MB (shared)	6 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	7 nm	Intel 7 nm
Die size	156 mm²	no data
Maximum core temperature	105 °C	100 °C
Number of transistors	9,800 million	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 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 configuration	1	1
Socket	FP6	FCLGA1700
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	46 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME	Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	+	-
AVX	+	+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)	no data	+
Speed Shift	no data	+
Hyper-Threading Technology	no data	+
TSX	-	+
Idle States	no data	+
Thermal Monitoring	-	+
Deep Learning Boost	-	+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT	no data	+
EDB	no data	+
Secure Key	no data	+
OS Guard	no data	+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 are enumerated here.

AMD-V	+	-
VT-d	no data	+
VT-x	no data	+
EPT	no data	+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4	DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
Maximum memory size	64 GB	128 GB
Max memory channels	no data	2
Maximum memory bandwidth	68.27 GB/s	76.8 GB/s

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card Compare	AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (Ryzen 4000/5000) ( - 1500 MHz)	Intel UHD Graphics 710
Quick Sync Video	-	+
Clear Video HD	no data	+
Graphics max frequency	no data	1.35 GHz
Execution Units	no data	16

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported

no data

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 integrated GPUs, including resolutions over different interfaces.

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4	no data	4096 x 2160 @ 60Hz
Max resolution over eDP	no data	5120 x 3200 @ 120Hz
Max resolution over DisplayPort	no data	7680 x 4320 @ 60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX	no data	12
OpenGL	no data	4.5

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400.

PCIe version	3.0	5.0 and 4.0
PCI Express lanes	12	20

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 5 4500U 6.86
+61.8%

Pentium Gold G7400 4.24

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.

Ryzen 5 4500U 10903
+61.8%

Pentium Gold G7400 6739

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	6.86	4.24
Integrated graphics card	6.04	2.85
Recency	6 January 2020	4 January 2022
Physical cores	6	2
Threads	6	4
Power consumption (TDP)	15 Watt	46 Watt

Ryzen 5 4500U has a 61.8% higher aggregate performance score, 111.9% faster integrated GPU, 200% more physical cores and 50% more threads, and 206.7% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G7400, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year.

The Ryzen 5 4500U is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium Gold G7400 in performance tests.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 4500U is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G7400 is a desktop one.

Should you still have questions on choice between Ryzen 5 4500U and Pentium Gold G7400, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.