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Intel i5-2300 Cpu
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Intel Pentium G4560 Cpu
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Intel Pentium Gold G5420 Cpu
Intel Pentium Gold G5420
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Earlier than expected Intel move their NDA on the next lineup of Sandy Bridge processors. We take review all of the 6 series i5 range.Read more
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Hyper-Threading in a Pentium? It's blasphemy, and also pretty cool.Read more
Set at 3.5GHz, the Pentium G4560 is poised to be the bargain CPU of 2017. It's only 200MHz slower than the much loved Core i3-6100, amazing news...Read more
Kaby Lake's improved transistors allow Intel to clock its Pentium CPUs a few hundred megahertz higher. More important, though, the company arms them with Hyper-Threading technology. We test the Pentium G4620 and G4560 models to gauge their value.Read more
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Intel's Coffee Lake Pentium Gold processors land with friendly price points for budget builds. But AMD has a potent challenger in its Ryzen 3 2200G.Read more
We explore the Intel Pentium Gold G5420 benchmarks and discuss how this cheap server CPU compares to alternative LGA1151 processorsRead more
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User rating
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4.2 out of 5
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General

Processor socketLGA 1155LGA 1151LGA 1151
Component forPCPCPC
Operating modes64-bit64-bit64-bit

Processor

Clock speed2.8 GHz3.5 GHz3.8 GHz
Max turbo speed3.1 GHz
N/A
N/A
Number of cores422
Number of threads444
Thermal Design Power (TDP)95.0 W54.0 W54.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in0.0 in0.0 in
Bus typeDMIDMI3
N/A
Idle statesyesyesyes

Integrated Graphics

On-board graphics adapteryesyesyes
TypeIntel HD Graphics 2000Intel HD Graphics 610Intel UHD Graphics 610
On-board graphics adapter base frequency850.0 MHz350.0 MHz350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version
N/A
12.012.0

Memory

Cache6 MB3 MB4 MB
Cache typeSmart Cache
N/A
Smart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
  • 1066
  • 1333
  • 1333
  • 1600
  • 2133
  • 2400
2400.0 MHz
Maximum internal memory supported by processor32.0 GB64.0 GB64.0 GB
Memory types supported by processorDDR3 SDRAM
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
DDR4 SDRAM
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)21.0 GB/s
N/A
37.5 GB/s
Memory channelsDualDualDual

Features

Thermal monitoring technologiesyesyesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes161616
Supported instruction setsAVX
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bityesyesyes
Scalability
N/A
1S1S

Often compared with Intel i5-2300

Often compared with Intel Pentium G4560