Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i7-2600K vs Pentium Gold 7505 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold 7505 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-2600K has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has 4 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 i7-2600K 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. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.