Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i7-2600 vs Pentium Gold 7505 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the Core i7-2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-2600 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 i7-2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.