Intel Core i5-6600 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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

2507 points

49% significantly better overall score

1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

38% slightly better gaming score

3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

1193 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points

81% significantly higher Blender score

26.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2566 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1330 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% 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

626th of 1,089

779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6600 vs Pentium Gold 7505 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6600 performs better than the Pentium Gold 7505. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold 7505 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6600 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold 7505 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.