Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 vs Intel Pentium G860

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G860

Price

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$ 149.00

$ 70.73

$ 78.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

857 points

927 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1882 points

1998 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

610 points

666 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

586 points

639 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5.67 points

10.26 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

566 points

748 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

346 points

447 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.62 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,016th of 1,118

998th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core

Pentium

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

2011 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Core 2 Duo E7500 vs Pentium G860 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium G860 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E7500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E7500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G860. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium G860

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.