Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare Intel Pentium Gold Series 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 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

1678 points
2007 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3356 points
3728 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1245 points
1528 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1193 points
1468 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

26.38 points
50.68 points
92% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2566 points
3227 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1330 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1124 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
Identical
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

779th of 1,089
713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Gold Series
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 November
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold 7505 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold 7505. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold 7505. But they both have the same number of threads. A Pentium Gold 7505 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Pentium Gold 7505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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