Comparison of Intel Pentium Gold G6420T and Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Attribute	Intel Pentium Gold G6420T ×	Intel Pentium Gold G5420T ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Pentium	Intel Pentium
Model	Intel Pentium Gold G6420T	Intel Pentium Gold G5420T
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	2	2
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	3.2
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h264	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
VP8	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AV1	No	No
VC-1	Decode	Decode
VP9	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
AVC	Decode / Encode	Decode / Encode
Internal Graphics
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 610	Intel HD Graphics 610
GPU frequency (GHz)	0.35	0.35
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	2016
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2400	DDR4-2400
Max. Memory (GB)	64	64
PCIe lanes	16	16
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2021	2019
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 1151	LGA 1151
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	4	4
Architecture	Coffee Lake Refresh	Coffee Lake
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP down (W)	25	25
TDP (PL1) (W)	35	35
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	202	202