Intel Core i3-7100 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points

5% slightly better overall score

1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1193 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

26.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points

2566 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points

1330 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

15 W

239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

Identical

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089

779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-7100 vs Pentium Gold 7505 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-7100 is faster than the Pentium Gold 7505. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i3-7100 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.