Intel Pentium G4400: Benchmarking A $60 Skylake Processor

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The Pentium G4400 is a dual-core processor running at 3.3GHz without any Hyper Threading nor any Turbo Boost capability. This 3.3GHz dual-core CPU has a 54 Watt TDP and features Intel HD Graphics 510 that run up to a 1GHz frequency. This low-end CPU has a 3MB cache. Unlike the higher-end Core CPUs, this Skylake Pentium processor lacks AVX support. This Pentium processor also lacks vPro, TSX-NI, SIPP, and Trusted Execution Technology. The Pentium G4400 supports DDR4-2133/1866MHz memory or DDR3L-1600/1333MHz memory depending upon the motherboard.

This CPU certainly isn't meant for any really demanding workloads, but could serve as a potential Linux desktop with basic accelerated graphics via the HD Graphics 510. The Pentium G4400 is still rated to drive up to three displays and can handle 4K via HDMI/DP. Like the other Skylake processors with HD Graphics 530, the hardware can support up to OpenGL 4.4 / DirectX 12 but under Linux the current Mesa driver still only has full OpenGL 3.3 support with the GL 4.x support being a work-in-progress.
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