AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Pentium Gold G6500

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Intel Pentium Gold G6500

We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X with 12 cores 4.7GHz and Intel Pentium Gold G6500 with 2 cores 4.1GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2666)

Larger memory bandwidth (83.2GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (4.7GHz vs 4.1GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 4MB)

Intel Pentium Gold G6500 's Advantages

Lower TDP (58W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +258%

2942

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

821

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +1023%

19092

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

1700

Geekbench 5 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +175%

2277

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

828

Geekbench 5 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +862%

20503

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

2130

Passmark CPU Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +72%

4317

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

2500

Passmark CPU Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X +1150%

52013

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

4159

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

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Intel Pentium Gold G6500

General Parameters

Sep 2022

Release Date

May 2020

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Raphael

Core Architecture

Comet Lake

-

Processor Number

G6500

AM5

Socket

LGA-1200

AMD Radeon™ Graphics

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics 630

Package

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AM5

Socket

LGA-1200

170 W

Power Consumption

58 W

95 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

100 °C

CPU Performance

12

Performance Cores

2

24

Performance Core Threads

4

4.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

4.1 GHz

5.6 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

-

12

Total Core Count

2

24

Total Thread Count

4

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

47x

Multiplier

41x

-

L1 Cache

64 K per core

12 MB shared

L2 Cache

256 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

4 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-2666

128 GB

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

3

83.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

41.6 GB/s

-

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1100 MHz

-

Shader Units

192

-

Texture Units

24

-

Raster Operation Units

3

-

Execution Units

24

-

Power Consumption

15 W

-

Max Resolution

4096x2304 - 60 Hz

-

Graphics Performance

0.38 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Official Website

Intel Pentium Gold G6500

5.0

PCIe Version

3.0

24

PCIe Lanes

16

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