Pentium Gold G5400 vs FX-7500

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Aggregate performance score

FX-7500
2014
4 cores / 4 threads, 19 Watt
2.02
Pentium Gold G5400
2018
2 cores / 4 threads, 58 Watt
2.35
+16.3%

Pentium Gold G5400 outperforms FX-7500 by a moderate 16% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking19281800
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data5.74
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD KaveriIntel Pentium Gold
Power efficiency10.064.36
Architecture codenameKaveri (2014−2015)Coffee Lake (2017−2019)
Release date4 June 2014 (10 years ago)2 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$64

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

no data

Detailed specifications

FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 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 cores4 (Quad-Core)2 (Dual-core)
Threads44
Base clock speed2.1 GHz3.7 GHz
Boost clock speed3.3 GHz3.7 GHz
Bus typeno dataDMI 3.0
Bus rateno data4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplierno data37
L1 cacheno data64K (per core)
L2 cache4096 KB256K (per core)
L3 cacheno data4 MB (shared)
Chip lithography28 nm14 nm
Die size245 mm2126 mm2
Maximum core temperatureno data100 °C
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data72 °C
Number of transistors2,410 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 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 (Uniprocessor)
SocketFP3FCLGA1151
Power consumption (TDP)19 Watt58 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions86x SSE (1, 2, 3, 3S, 4.1, 4.2, 4A),-64, AES, AVX, FMAIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2
AES-NI++
FMA+-
AVX+-
FRTC+-
TrueAudio+-
PowerNow+-
PowerGating+-
Out-of-band client management+-
VirusProtect+-
HSA+-
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)no data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data-
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
Idle Statesno data+
Thermal Monitoring-+

Security technologies

FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

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

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+
IOMMU 2.0+-

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3-1600DDR4-2400
Maximum memory sizeno data64 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidthno data38.397 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card
Compare
AMD Radeon R7 GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 610
iGPU core count6no data
Max video memoryno data64 GB
Quick Sync Video-+
Clear Videono data+
Clear Video HDno data+
Enduro+-
Switchable graphics+-
UVD+-
VCE+-
Graphics max frequencyno data1.05 GHz
InTru 3Dno data+

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supportedno data3
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 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 FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400 integrated GPUs, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectXDirectX® 1212
OpenGLno data4.5
Vulkan+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes816

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.

FX-7500 2.02
Pentium Gold G5400 2.35
+16.3%

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.

FX-7500 3209
Pentium Gold G5400 3738
+16.5%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

FX-7500 315
Pentium Gold G5400 738
+134%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

FX-7500 684
Pentium Gold G5400 1509
+121%

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 2.02 2.35
Recency 4 June 2014 2 April 2018
Physical cores 4 2
Chip lithography 28 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 19 Watt 58 Watt

FX-7500 has 100% more physical cores, and 205.3% lower power consumption.

Pentium Gold G5400, on the other hand, has a 16.3% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 3 years, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

The Pentium Gold G5400 is our recommended choice as it beats the FX-7500 in performance tests.

Be aware that FX-7500 is a notebook processor while Pentium Gold G5400 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between FX-7500 and Pentium Gold G5400, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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