Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Core i7-6920HQ vs Pentium Gold 7505 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6920HQ is faster than the Pentium Gold 7505. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6920HQ 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 i7-6920HQ 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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.