Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i7-5700HQ vs Pentium Gold 7505 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5700HQ performs better than the Pentium Gold 7505. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5700HQ has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold 7505 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold 7505. The Pentium Gold 7505 outputs less heat than Core i7-5700HQ 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 i7-5700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.