But the UHD Graphics engine isn't really suitable for gaming, even at low resolutions and relaxed quality settings. It's also equipped with plenty of connectivity options, including native support for DisplayPort 1.2a and HDMI 1.4. UHD Graphics 630/610 supports a wide range of codecs and provides hardware acceleration for most media consumption tasks. A 350 MHz base graphics frequency boosts up to 1.1 GHz on the Pentium Gold G5600 and 1.05 GHz on the G5400. The former is composed of 24 execution units in what is referred to as a GT2 configuration, while the latter consists of 12 EUs in a GT1 setup. Intel's Pentium Gold G5600 includes on-die UHD Graphics 630, while the G5400 utilizes UHD Graphics 610. Finally, Optane memory isn't an option in Pentium-based PCs. As a result, AMD's AVX-enabled Ryzen 3 2200G enjoys a performance advantage in several optimized applications, as you'll see in our benchmarks. Pentium processors don't support the AVX/AVX2 instructions that accelerate certain productivity workloads, either.

Intel also locks its ratio multipliers, preventing overclockers from coaxing extra performance from the chips. Under load, you get one static frequency, regardless of how many cores are active. Similar to the Core i3 models, Pentiums lack Turbo Boost functionality altogether. Pentium Gold CPUs don't get all of Intel's special sauce, though. And whereas AMD's Ryzen 3 2200G only gives you eight lanes of PCIe 3.0 for discrete graphics upgrades, both Pentium chips offer a full 16-lane link. The dual-channel DDR4 memory controller is still limited to 2400 MT/s, so peak bandwidth does not change. Intel also bumped 元 cache capacity up to 4MB, a 33% increase compared to Kaby Lake-based Pentiums. That, plus a 3W-higher thermal design power, is responsible for the 200 MHz speed-up available across the Pentium Gold family. Of course, Coffee Lake is manufactured using an optimized 14nm++ process. That practice continues with today's Coffee Lake-based models, allowing the dual-core Pentium Gold G5600 and G5400 CPUs to operate on four threads concurrently. Intel also added Hyper-Threading Technology to its Kaby Lake-based Pentiums in an effort to stave off the then-impending Ryzen onslaught.

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