Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold 7505 beats the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1226 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold 7505 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A Pentium Gold 7505 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1226 v3 CPU because of its 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 Pentium Gold 7505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.