AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Pentium Gold 7505

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 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

2534 points

51% significantly better overall score

1678 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3356 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

1245 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

73% significantly better heavy workload score

1193 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

26.38 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2566 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1330 points

190% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

779th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium Gold Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8320 vs Pentium Gold 7505 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Pentium Gold 7505 performs better than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8320 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the FX-8320 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 FX-8320 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 FX-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.