Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare Intel 8th 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

1040 points

1678 points

61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1956 points

3356 points

71% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

794 points

1245 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

766 points

1193 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.82 points

26.38 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2004 points

2606 points

30% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2453 points

2566 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points

1330 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

938th of 1,089

779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8109U vs Pentium Gold 7505 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the Core i3-8109U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i3-8109U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.