CPUDesktopReleased Mar 16, 2021

Intel Pentium Gold G6405

2C/4T · 58 W

The Pentium Gold G6405 is a refresh of the Pentium Gold G6400, announced by Intel on March 16, 2021 as part of the Comet Lake refresh for the LGA1200 platform. It keeps the same two Hyper-Threaded cores, 4 MB cache and UHD Graphics 610 as the original, with the fixed clock raised by 100 MHz to 4.1 GHz. Like other Comet Lake Pentium models it lacks AVX and AVX2.

General

Manufacturer
Intel
Model
Intel Pentium Gold G6405
Segment
Desktop
Generation
Pentium/Celeron (Comet Lake)
Codename
Comet Lake-S
Architecture
x86_64
Microarchitecture
Comet Lake (Skylake)
Release date
Mar 16, 2021

Cores & clocks

Cores / threads
2 cores / 4 threads
Base clock
4.10 GHz
Boost clock
—
TDP (design W)
58 W
Unlocked
✕ No
L2 cache
0.5 MB
L3 cache
4 MB
Technology (nm)
14 nm
Intel 14 nm++

Platform

Socket
FCLGA1200
2-CPU (multi-socket)
✕ No
Integrated GPU
Intel UHD Graphics 610
Clock: 1,050 MHz
Memory type
DDR4-2666
2-channel
Memory size
Up to 128 GB
ECC memory
—
PCIe
PCIe 3.0 (16 lanes)

Instructions & AI

Instruction extensions
Intel SSE4.1Intel SSE4.2Intel 64AES-NIIntel VT-xVT-x EPTIntel VT-d
NPU
None

OS support

Windows
Windows 10Windows 11 24H2Windows 11 25H2Windows 11 26H2
Linux
UbuntuFedoraArch Linux
Notes
Listed by Microsoft as a supported processor for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2; 26H2 keeps the 25H2 requirements. Windows 10 and mainstream Linux distributions are supported.
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