Comparison of Intel Core i3-4012Y and Intel Pentium Gold G6420

Attribute	Intel Pentium Gold G6420 ×	Intel Core i3-4012Y ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Core i3
Model	Intel Pentium Gold G6420	Intel Core i3-4012Y
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	4	1.5
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	No
VP8	Decode / Encode	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	No
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 610	Intel HD Graphics 4200
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.35	0.2
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	1.05	0.85
Generation	9	7
DirectX Version	12	11.1
Execution units	12	20
Shader	96	160
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	32	2
Max. displays	3	3
GPU Release date (year)	2016	2013
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2400	DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMM
Max. Memory (GB)	64	-
PCIe lanes	16	12
PCIe version	3.0	2.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2021	2013
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1168
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	4	3
Architecture	Coffee Lake Refresh	Haswell
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	58	11.5
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	202	272
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	166	61
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	420	152