Intel Pentium Gold G5400 2-Core 3.7GHz
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the Intel Pentium Gold G5400 2-Core 3.7GHz is noticeably better than the AMD Opteron 4274 HE when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
The Pentium Gold G5400 was released over three years more recently than the Opteron 4274 HE, and so the Pentium Gold G5400 is likely to have far better levels of support, and will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the Opteron 4274 HE when running the latest games.
Both CPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings (assuming they are accompanied by equivalently powerful GPUs).
The Opteron 4274 HE has 6 more cores than the Pentium Gold G5400. With 8 cores, the Opteron 4274 HE is much less likely to struggle with the latest games, or bottleneck high-end graphics cards when running them.
The Pentium Gold G5400 and Opteron 4274 HE are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Pentium Gold G5400 has a 1.2 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the Opteron 4274 HE is superior.
The Opteron 4274 HE has a 488 KB bigger L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G5400, which means that it, at worst, wins out in this area, and at best, will provide superior gaming performance and will work much better with high-end graphics cards.
The Pentium Gold G5400 has a 14 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Opteron 4274 HE, and was created with a 18 nm smaller manufacturing technology. What this means is the Pentium Gold G5400 will consume slightly less power and consequently produce less heat, enabling more prolonged computational tasks with fewer adverse effects. This will lower your yearly electricity bill slightly, as well as prevent you from having to invest in extra cooling mechanisms (unless you overclock).
The Pentium Gold G5400 has an on-board GPU, which means that it will be capable of running basic graphics applications (i.e., games) without the need for a dedicated graphics card. The Opteron 4274 HE, however, does not, and you will probably have to look for a dedicated card if you wish to use it at all.
For in-depth GPU comparisons with the Intel HD Graphics 610, click on the following GPU overview comparison icon (visible throughout Game-Debate), and choose a GPU from the list to compare against:
On-board GPUs tend to be fairly awful in comparison to dedicated cards from the likes of AMD or Nvidia, but as they are built into the CPU, they also tend to be cheaper and require far less power to run (this makes them a good choice for laptops). We would recommend a dedicated card for running the latest games, but integrated GPUs are improving all the time and casual gamers may find less recent games perform perfectly acceptably.
Coffee Lake S Valencia
LGA 1151 Socket C32
26 Feb 2018 14 Nov 2011
CPU Threads
3.7 GHz vs 2.5 GHz
- vs 3200 MHz
51 W vs 65 W
64 Bit vs -
- vs 68°C
no vs yes
128 KB vs 48 KB
L1 Cache Count
- vs 8
512 KB vs 1000 KB
L2 Cache Speed
4 MB vs 8 MB
Memory Channels
Base GPU Frequency
350 MHz vs -
Max GPU Frequency
1050 MHz vs -
12.0 vs -
Displays Supported
The Pentium Gold G5400 2-Core 3.7GHz is a budget processor based on the 14nm Cofee Lake architecture. It offers 2 Physical Cores (4 Logical), clocked at 3.7GHz and 4MB of L3 Cache. Among its many features, Hyperthreading, Virtualization, and Enhanced SpeedStep are activated. The processor integrates Graphics called Intel UHD Graphics 610 (Kaby Lake), with 24 Execution Units, initially clocked at 350MHz and that go up to 1050MHz, in Turbo Mode which shares the L2 Cache and system RAM with the processor. It will struggle to run the latest AAA games at playable frame rates. Both the processor and integrated graphics have a rated board TDP of 51W. Intel's Pentium Gold G5400 2-Core 3.7GHz offers average to good performance and is classified in the low to middle-class range of processors. This means it will become a bottleneck in some demanding applications, although gaming performance will be largely fine. Opteron is AMD's x86 server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor to implement the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). It was released on April 22, 2003 with the SledgeHammer core (K8) and was intended to compete in the server and workstation markets, particularly in the same segment as the Intel Xeon processor. Processors based on the AMD K10 microarchitecture (codenamed Barcelona) were announced on September 10, 2007 featuring a new quad-core configuration. The most-recently released Opteron CPUs are the 8- and 12-core Socket G34 Opterons, code-named Magny-Cours.
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