Intel Core i7-3740QM vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i7-3740QM vs Pentium Gold 7505 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold 7505 is faster than the Core i7-3740QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3740QM in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3740QM has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Core i7-3740QM 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 i7-3740QM 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 i7-3740QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.