Pentium Gold G5400
The Pentium Gold G5400 is Intel’s 2-core, 4-thread processor for the LGA1151 platform, built on the Coffee Lake architecture. Below you’ll find its full spec sheet with gaming and productivity benchmarks. It’s out of stock at the retailers we track right now, but the specs and benchmarks below still apply whenever it returns.
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Gaming performance
CPU-bound gaming score: a 1080p rating normalized so the fastest gaming CPU we track = 100. Productivity scores are in the Benchmarks section below.
1080p Gaming
The Pentium Gold G5400 scores 20.0 on our 0–100 CPU gaming scale, tested at 1080p where the processor, not the graphics card, sets the frame rate. At 1440p and 4K the gap between CPUs shrinks as the GPU takes over.
Performance-per-dollar rank among all CPUs with live pricing
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Productivity value
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Where to buy the Pentium Gold G5400
Every in-stock retailer offer we track, cheapest first.
Currently out of stock
The Pentium Gold G5400 isn’t in stock at the retailers we track right now. Prices refresh daily, so check back — or compare in-stock alternatives below.
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The Pentium Gold G5400's bundled E97378-003 can't keep up with its sustained power draw, so an aftermarket cooler is the safer buy. This is the cheapest air cooler in stock that fits LGA1151 and handles its heat.
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Specifications
Cores & Clocks
- Cores / Threads
- 2 / 4
- P-cores
- 2
- E-cores
- 0
- Base clock
- 3.7 GHz
- Boost clock
- 3.7 GHz
- Architecture
- Coffee Lake
Cache & Process
- L3 cache
- 4 MB
- L2 cache
- 0.5 MB
- Process node
- 14nm
- Released
- 2018-04-01
Memory & Platform
- Socket
- LGA1151
- Memory channels
- 2
- Max memory
- 64 GB
- Memory support
- DDR4, 2400
- Chipsets
- Intel 300 Series
- PCIe
- PCIe 3.0
- ECC support
- No
Power & Extras
- TDP
- 58W
- Max power
- 25W
- Integrated graphics
- UHD Graphics 610
- Stock cooler
- E97378-003
- MSRP
- $64.00
The Pentium Gold G5400 pairs 2 cores with 4 MB of L3 cache on the 14nm process. Compare the Pentium Gold G5400 against the full CPU lineup on the CPU comparison table, or build a compatible system around it with the PC Builder.
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