Comparison of Intel Core i7-6498DU and Intel Pentium Gold G6420T

Attribute	Intel Pentium Gold G6420T ×	Intel Core i7-6498DU ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Core i7
Model	Intel Pentium Gold G6420T	Intel Core i7-6498DU
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	2.5
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	-	3.1
Turbo (2 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.8
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode
VP8	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	Decode
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 610	Intel HD Graphics 510
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.35	0.3
GPU (Turbo) (GHz)	1.05	1.05
Generation	9	9
DirectX Version	12	12
Execution units	12	12
Shader	96	96
Max. GPU Memory (GB)	32	32
Max. displays	3	3
GPU Release date (year)	2016	2015
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2400	DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
Max. Memory (GB)	64	32
PCIe lanes	16	12
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2021	2015
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 1151	BGA 1356
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	4	4
Architecture	Coffee Lake Refresh	Skylake-U
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP down (W)	25	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	35	15
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	202	202