Intel Core i7-5500U vs Intel Pentium Gold G5420T

Compare Intel 5th Generation Core i7 2 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

1149 points
1% slightly better overall score
1137 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2264 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2204 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

853 points
855 points
0.23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

817 points
821 points
0.49% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

17.15 points
20.35 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1695 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1388 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

881 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
679 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
Identical
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.19 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
133% significantly lower TDP
35 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

16 GiB
64 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
Identical
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

912th of 1,089
915th of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7
Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 February
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Core i7-5500U vs Pentium Gold G5420T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5500U is faster than the Pentium Gold G5420T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Gold G5420T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G5420T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5500U. A Core i7-5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Pentium Gold G5420T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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 i7-5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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