Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i5-12500 vs Pentium Gold 7505 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Pentium Gold 7505. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold 7505 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-12500 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold 7505. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 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 i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.