Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare Intel 8th 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

2837 points
69% significantly better overall score
1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4554 points
35% slightly better gaming score
3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2331 points
87% significantly better multitasking score
1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2236 points
87% significantly better heavy workload score
1193 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.07 points
108% significantly higher Blender score
26.38 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3732 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2566 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1267 points
1330 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
Identical
64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

564th of 1,089
779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
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

DDR4-2666
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i5-8300H vs Pentium Gold 7505 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8300H 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-8300H has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold 7505 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i5-8300H 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 i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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