Intel Pentium Coffee Lake G5400 BOX (BX80684G5400)

Small spool, but inexpensive

The Pentium Gold G5400 is the second generation of low-cost dual-core Intel processors with support for Hyper-Threading technology, which virtually doubles the number of cores (more precisely, computational threads). There are no cardinal differences from the previous G4560: the frequency has slightly increased (from 3.5 to 3.7 GHz), support for DDR4-2400 MHz RAM has appeared (previously it was only 2133), and the integrated graphics was renamed from HD 610 to UHD 610, without adding it at all performance. There are still no AVX instructions, it's good that they are not in demand.

Clothing for growth

Nevertheless, there is a reason to build a computer on the new G5400, despite the higher cost of motherboards based on the H310 chipset compared to the H110, and it is significant. In the future, it will be possible to upgrade to the mid-price six-core processor Core i5-8400, while the H110 motherboards from processors of similar performance support only the expensive i7-7700, and the i5-7400 is one and a half times weaker.

Games with and without graphics card

On its own, the Pentium Gold G5400 can handle only undemanding online games like CSGO, World of Tanks and Dota 2 with its own integrated graphics, and even then only at low graphics settings. But paired with a discrete graphics card like the GeForce GTX 1050, 1050 Ti or Radeon RX 560, he can handle any, even the heaviest games of 2018-2019. It is also worth noting the low heating of the processor, which even a simple bundled cooler can handle in quiet mode.